Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/02/20/08:39:03
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:34:09AM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:21:55PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:37:12PM +0000, Robert R Schneck wrote:
>> >Short form:
>> >1) "cat > foo" creates foo with DOS line endings... no matter what.
>> >2) A control-Z in a file doesn't act as end-of-file in text mode,
>> >despite what the Cygwin User's Guide says.
>>
>> Joshua, could you remove anything which indicates that CTRL-Z is
>> equivalent to an EOF from the user's guide?
>
>Done. The CYGWIN=tty section now reads, "Defaults to not set, in which case the
>tty is opened in text mode. Note that this has been changed such that ^D works
>as expected instead of ^Z, and is settable via stty." Does this sound accurate?
>
>I also removed the sentence "On reading in text mode, a CR followed by an NL is
>deleted and a ^Z character signals the end of file" from the Using Text and
>Binary Modes section, the whole of which seems somewhat outdated. Ah,
>(volunteer) job security.
>
>I also changed all mentions of ^M to ^S, just to be mean. (Just kidding.)
This all sounds good. Thanks.
I especially liked the ^M to ^S, but that's no surprise.
cgf
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