Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/05/08/19:04:22
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 08:02:30AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
>Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net> writes:
>>it now defaults to the underlying mount mode when the user does not
>>specify binary or text. In my opinion, dd should default to binary
>>when neither text nor binary is specified
>
>Hmm, overriding the explicit advice of the system administrator? How
>common is it for file systems to be mounted in text mode? Why would
>anyone do such a thing? If it's sufficiently rare, then dd shouldn't
>need to worry about it.
It is not rare but, regardless, this email was the result of someone who
was surprised by the fact that dd converted LF -> CRLF. Whether it is
common or not, I don't think it makes sense to surprise people who use
dd when it is trivial to make it work in a more UNIX-like fashion (i.e.,
do not convert LF -> CRLF).
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