Subject: Re: Ctrl-Z
From: [email-masked] (Geoffrey Noer)

9 Aug 1997 01:18:21 -0700
Approved: [email-masked]
Distribution: cygnus
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
Content-Type: text
Original-To: [email-masked] (root)
Original-Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
In-Reply-To: <[email-masked]> from "root" at Aug 8, 97 08:12:08 pm
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23]
Original-Sender: [email-masked]

[...]
> 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
[...]

Nope, I read them.  :-)

Believe it or not, we have customers who have huge source bases where all
their files end in ^Zs.  Even if we didn't have ^Z as EOF, people would
still run into the carriage return/line feed conversion part of the
text mode != binary mode picture whenever binary files are read in text
mode.

Hopefully adding binary flags to some of the utilities will help...

Cheers,

Geoffrey Noer
[email-masked]
-
For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to
"[email-masked]" with one line of text: "help".