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: <427CFDD3.3040000@tu-bs.de> Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 19:41:39 +0200 From: Sebastian Schuberth User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 6.5 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Blake CC: Paul Eggert , cygwin@cygwin.com, bug-coreutils@gnu.org References: <427B1A65.5060106@tu-bs.de> <427B258F.90516ACA@dessent.net> <427B70CB.7040101@byu.net> <87oebo1bfa.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <427CDB49.8030804@byu.net> In-Reply-To: <427CDB49.8030804@byu.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 212.202.42.97 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: s.schuberth@tu-bs.de Subject: Re: DD converts LF -> CR / LF X-Spam-Stars: X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 (built Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:44:12 +0100) >>>2005-05-06 Paul Eggert >>> >>> * NEWS: dd has new iflag= and oflag= flags "binary" and "text". >>> * doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document it. >>> * src/dd.c (flags, usage): Support it. > > That's okay for a start, but it now defaults to the underlying mount mode > when the user does not specify binary or text. In my opinion, dd should > default to binary when neither text nor binary is specified (of course, > that makes iflag=binary pretty much a no-op). I agree, DD should default to binary in any case. Well, I'll look foreward to the Cywin release of coreutils-5.3.0-6 to see which patch will make it ;-) -- Sebastian Schuberth -- 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/