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Date:	Sat, 31 May 2003 06:50:29 +0800
From:	Greg Matheson <lang AT ms DOT chinmin DOT edu DOT tw>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Should PERLIO=no_crlf be the default on Cygwin?
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In-Reply-To:	<68785452711.20030530171948@familiehaase.de>; from gp@familiehaase.de on Fri, May 30, 2003 at 17:19:48 +0200

On Fri, 30 May 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> Hallo Max,

> >>> Since Cygwin runs on Windows and Windows is a DOS system the PERLIO
> >>> layer crlf is default.

> > Is there any way to tell perlio "just let the system (i.e.
> > cygwin) handle things"?  That would be a nice default.

> I need to patch the sources to do this, but it is no major problem,
> I'm already testing with the patched version and it seems to be the
> best solution to make no_crlf the default for Cygwin, it is also no
> problem then to pull it in everytime it is needed with PERLIO=crlf.

It would be good to be able to use the 'open' pragma to do this,
rather than an environmental variable. 

        use open IN  => ":crlf", OUT => ":bytes";

But it didn't seem to work.

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