Subject: Re: Perl binmode problem on text mount
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[email-masked]>
To: Earl Chew <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 22:15:31 +0100

Earl Chew wrote:

> This code used to work on Perl 5.6.1-2 on Cygwin 1.3.10.
> 
> I've now moved to Perl 5.8.5-3 on Cygwin 1.5.11.
> 
> Here is the Perl program:
> 
>     binmode STDOUT;
>     print "Hello\n";
> 
> 1. Output to file on text mount
> 
>     perl foo.pl > foo.txt ; od -c foo.txt
> 
>     0000000  H e l l o \r \n    # Perl 5.8.5-3 Cygwin 1.5.11
>     0000000  H e l l o \n        # Perl 5.6.1-2 Cygwin 1.3.10
> 
> 2. Output to file via cat
> 
>     perl foo.pl | cat > foo.txt ; od -c foo.txt
> 
>     0000000  H e l l o \n        # Perl 5.8.5-3 Cygwin 1.5.11
>     0000000  H e l l o \n        # Perl 5.6.1-2 Cygwin 1.3.10
> 
> Has anyone else experienced the same issue?

Actually it is not perl writing \r here:

$ perl ./binmode.pl | od -c
0000000   H   e   l   l   o  \n
0000006

Gerrit
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