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Subject:	RE: GCC program always opening files in text mode
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Date:	Sat, 23 Mar 2002 01:53:12 +1100
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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	<Isaac DOT Pacht AT smed DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Isaac DOT Pacht AT smed DOT com [mailto:Isaac DOT Pacht AT smed DOT com] 
> Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 1:45 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: GCC program always opening files in text mode
> 
> 
> I'm trying to open a file on windows in "text" mode (i.e., 
> translate LF to CR/LF on output).  But no matter how I open 
> the file (fopen, ofstream,
> std::ofstream) it outputs only LF's  (unless, of course, I 
> output a "\r\n" pair explicitly).  This is even though I am 
> not specifying binary mode. From the documentation I thought 
> these files should be opened in text mode by default.  The 
> references I found to things like mount settings and 
> CYGWIN=nobinmode seem to apply only to getting standard 
> utilities to use text mode.  What am I doing wrong?

The default mode is defined by the machine's install of cygwin. So,
always sepcify t or b in your mode, or O_TEXT or O_BINARY for open()
calls.

Rob

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