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Date:	Sun, 2 Jan 2005 17:27:45 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: "od" wrong line endings and byte count
Message-ID:	<20050102222745.GG20747@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
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On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 12:34:03PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
>David Christensen wrote:
>> 
>> cygwin:
>> 
>> When I create a file using notepad:
>> 
>>     This is a text file created with Notepad.
>>     It has DOS (CRLF) line endings.
>> 
>> Look at it using "wc":
>> 
>>         dpchrist AT p42800e:~$ wc textfile.txt
>>               2      14      76 textfile.txt
>> 
>> And then look at it with Cygwin "od", I see:
>
>There is nothing wrong here.  You installed cygwin with text mode
>mounts:
>
>C:\cygwin      /          system  textmode
>C:\cygwin/bin  /usr/bin   system  textmode
>C:\cygwin/lib  /usr/lib   system  textmode
>.              /cygdrive  system  textmode,cygdrive
>
>This means that when a cygwin program reads a file with CRLF endings it
>is translated to LF line endings that all unix tools expect.  You want
>binary mounts if this is not what you desire.  See the FAQ for more
>info...

I think that this is a regression of "od", though.  It probably should use
binmode by default.

cgf

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