From: john.cook@kla-tencor.com (John Cook) Subject: RE: Ctrl-Z 8 Aug 1997 15:23:47 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "'gnu-win32@cygnus.com'" X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.995.52 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Unfortunately, even if most applications have ceased to use this CTRL-Z as an EOF marker, DOS itself and even NT's CMD.EXE continue to do so in some circumstances. 'copy /a filea fileb' treats the source file as 'ASCII' and appends that CTRL-Z to the end of the file (unless a CTRL-Z is already there). I'm not arguing in favor of this by any means; I started one of the thousand discussions about this last year upon noticing that gnuwin32's cat stopped upon finding CTRL-Z in a binary file. I'd prefer that cygwin32 treat all files as binary by default and never use (or interpret) CR or CTRL-Z for text files. NT's CMD.EXE even appears quite happy with text files which use only LF instead of CR-LF as line separators (I don't know if win95 is as tolerant). --John >---------- >From: root@jacob.remcomp.fr[SMTP:root@jacob.remcomp.fr] >Sent: Friday, August 08, 1997 11:12 AM >To: mchase@ix.netcom.com >Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com >Subject: Re: Ctrl-Z > >> Your filesystems are mounted in text mode by default by the initial >> gnuwin32 installation. That causes all files written by cat to have LF >> changed to CRLF and stop short at the MSDOS EOF mark (Ctrl-Z). > >This is CRAZY. We have discussed this a thousand times in this list, >in a span of several years: > >Ctrl-Z IS NOT USED FOR MARKING THE END OF FILE SINCE MS-DOS 2.0!!!!!!!!!!!! > >Does gnu-win32 want to be compatible with DOS 1.0? > >The real problem behind this, and that is why it makes me mad, is that nobody >at Cygnus is reading this bug reports, so the same unfixed bugs remain >forever >and people fall into them over and over again. > >NOBODY uses Ctrl-Z to end a text file since AGES, at least 10 years or so. >WAKE-UP GUYS!!! > >-- >Jacob Navia Logiciels/Informatique >41 rue Maurice Ravel Tel 01 48.23.51.44 >93430 Villetaneuse Fax 01 48.23.95.39 >France >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". > - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".