Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3A5F3FE5.FF805015@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 12:33:25 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: Cygwin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" CC: Joey Mukherjee , Cygwin Subject: Re: Problem with F:/ and /cygdrive/f/ References: <4.3.1.2.20010112115951.0223dc80@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote: > > At 11:54 AM 1/12/2001, Joey Mukherjee wrote: > >I have a program which works perfectly when I tell it to read from a file at > >/cygdrive/f/ . However, when I set the directory to F:/, the program no > >longer works. > > > >The program is a simple dumper for one of our data files and it takes the > >name of the data file on the command line. Now, when debugging everything > >looks fine. The open succeeds, but the read starts reading garbage after > >the first read. > > > >This seemed really odd to me since I would figure the open would take care > >of any filename conversions. > > > >Thanks for any insight on what my problem might be... > > > >Joey > > The output of cygcheck -s -r -v and a test case showing the problem would be > helpful. > Not for this Larry. FAQ ALERT!! If you access a file via it's drive letter name, it will open it in text mode by default. Chris, will adding binmode to CYGWIN help in this case? Cheers, Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple