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Date: | Fri, 6 May 2005 10:42:03 -0400 |
From: | Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: DD converts LF -> CR / LF |
Message-ID: | <20050506144203.GC20565@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> |
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On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 06:52:15AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Eric Blake wrote: > >> Predefining O_BINARY as the default input_flags and output_flags is a >> stopgap measure. While it is fine for other programs, such as od, to > >Doesn't that overly complicate things? Seems to me that whenever you >use dd you are interested in copying fixed record length data. It just >doesn't seem very likely that you would actually ever want dd to operate >in text mode. I was going to make the same observation but then I read the dd man page and saw that it was already capable of padding newline-terminated records so I guess this wouldn't be that big a stretch. It certainly shouldn't do this by "default", though, no matter what the underlying mount says. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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