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Pan ruochen wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I do as the manual (http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-textbinary.html) says:
> When redirecting, the Cygwin shells uses rules (a-e). For these shells
> the relevant value of CYGWIN is that at the time the shell was
> launched and not that at the time the program is executed. Non-Cygwin
> shells always pipe and redirect with binary mode. With non-Cygwin
> shells the commands  cat filename | program and  program < filename
> are not equivalent when filename is on a text-mounted partition.
> 
> I have edited c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat as:
> @echo off
> set CYGWIN=binmode
> C:
> chdir C:\cygwin\bin
> bash --login -i
> 
> After I relaunch cygwin and run:
> echo abc > a.txt
> 
> The file a.txt is in DOS format, not in UNIX.
> What's wrong then?

I'd recommend reading and following the problem reporting guidelines found
at the link below for all problem reports.  It keeps folks on this list that
could help from having to guess about your configuration.

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Currently, my WAG is that you have 'c:\cygwin\bin' mounted as text.


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