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 From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: Cygwin perl not understanding textmode Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:00:08 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <4069CAB5.2000603@veritas.com> Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 Mar 2004 10:00:08.0828 (UTC) FILETIME=[F30E9BC0:01C41706] > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Mike Spertus > Sent: 30 March 2004 20:30 > > On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Mike Spertus wrote: > > > >> I have installed Cygwin with DOS linebreaks (i.e., disks > mounted in > >> textmode). However, Cygwin perl doesn't seem to understand this as > >> shown below. How do I tell Cygwin perl to respect textmode?: > >> > >> MPS@MPS-2000 ~ > >> $ od -t x1 foo.txt > >> 0000000 66 6f 6f 62 61 72 0d 0a 66 6f 6f 62 61 7a 0d 0a > 0000020 66 6f > >> 6f 62 61 74 0d 0a 0d 0a > >> 0000032 > >> > >> MPS@MPS-2000 ~ > >> $ cat ~/foo.txt | perl -e 'while (<>) {print;}' >bar.txt > >> > >> MPS@MPS-2000 ~ > >> $ od -t x1 bar.txt > >> 0000000 66 6f 6f 62 61 72 0d 0d 0a 66 6f 6f 62 61 7a 0d > 0000020 0d 0a > >> 66 6f 6f 62 61 74 0d 0d 0a 0d 0d 0a > >> 0000036 ISTM to have entirely correctly converted LF to CRLF, which is what textmode means AFAIUI. What were you hoping for? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/