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Subject:	Re: Cygwin 1.7 - backquoting, carriage returns and the removal of binmode
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According to Ryan Dortmans on 12/17/2009 4:45 PM:
> This issue has been raised before in the mailing lists, with the
> solution being to set the CYGWIN environment variable to include
> "nobinmode".

That controlled whether pipes are in text or binary mode, stripping the \r
before bash ever had a chance to see anything.  But there is another
approach - put bash into text mode to deal with the fact that cygwin no
longer strips \r from pipes.  In particular, check out mention of 'igncr'
in: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html

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