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: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 20:37:07 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "od" wrong line endings and byte count Message-ID: <20050103013707.GH20747@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20050102223613.GB608@efn.org> <20050102235926.2F8DB170893@samwise.efn.org> <20050103011640.GA444@efn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050103011640.GA444@efn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 05:16:40PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 05:58:47PM -0600, "Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote: >>>On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 05:27:45PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>>On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 12:34:03PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >>>>>This means that when a cygwin program reads a file with >>>CRLF endings >>>>>it is translated to LF line endings that all unix tools >>>expect. You >>>>>want binary mounts if this is not what you desire. See >>>the FAQ for >>>>>more info... >>>> >>>>I think that this is a regression of "od", though. It probably should >>>>use binmode by default. >>> >>>I would tend to agree, but how would you change this default if >>>desired? >>> >> >>? By one of the two ways God intended when he gave Moses POSIX: >> >>1. O_BINARY 2. "rb" > >Umm, that's not what I think of as "by default". I call that >"hardcoded". "Default" implies to me the possibility of changing >without recompile/relink. That is a very strange implication... 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/