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 Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:38:01 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: two text/binary oddities (Users Guide Alert) Message-ID: <20040220133801.GA1796@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20040219232155.GC23994@redhat.com> <20040220013409.A8591@ns1.iocc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040220013409.A8591@ns1.iocc.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:34:09AM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:21:55PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:37:12PM +0000, Robert R Schneck wrote: >> >Short form: >> >1) "cat > foo" creates foo with DOS line endings... no matter what. >> >2) A control-Z in a file doesn't act as end-of-file in text mode, >> >despite what the Cygwin User's Guide says. >> >> Joshua, could you remove anything which indicates that CTRL-Z is >> equivalent to an EOF from the user's guide? > >Done. The CYGWIN=tty section now reads, "Defaults to not set, in which case the >tty is opened in text mode. Note that this has been changed such that ^D works >as expected instead of ^Z, and is settable via stty." Does this sound accurate? > >I also removed the sentence "On reading in text mode, a CR followed by an NL is >deleted and a ^Z character signals the end of file" from the Using Text and >Binary Modes section, the whole of which seems somewhat outdated. Ah, >(volunteer) job security. > >I also changed all mentions of ^M to ^S, just to be mean. (Just kidding.) This all sounds good. Thanks. I especially liked the ^M to ^S, but that's no surprise. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/