Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <01f001c2ce16$90e6c380$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Nicolas Christin" , References: <00e101c2cdf8$79490fd0$78d96f83@pomello> <00ed01c2cdfc$8b6cc810$78d96f83@pomello> Subject: Re: Detecting text type in a shell script Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 19:33:03 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Nicolas Christin wrote: > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: > >> Have you tried linking you app with -lbinmode ? That should force all >> file access to be binary, whatever the mount. > > No - but that's a very good point - worth trying out. Thanks a bunch. You haven't said exactly what your program does, so I can't be sure, but there is also -lautomode, which (IIRC) does text reads and binary writes. Remember - When reading in binary mode, your program may receive \r\n line terminations if that is what the file actually contains. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/