From: iverson AT cisco DOT com (Tim Iverson) Subject: Re: cat and binary files 10 Apr 1997 09:56:24 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199704100238.TAA21049.cygnus.gnu-win32@rottweiler.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: huott AT pinebush DOT com (Ed Huott) Original-Cc: marc AT watson DOT ibm DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <199704092122.RAA06770@sol.pinebush.com> from "Ed Huott" at Apr 9, 97 05:22:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com If cat is stopping at Ctl-Z on anything but console input, it is a bug. There has been no actual "end-of-file" marker in DOS since version 2.0. The Ctl-Z is only EOF for the *console*, just like Ctl-D is EOF for /dev/tty under Unix. And, like /dev/tty, it's only EOF when the console is in cooked mode. If you put the console into raw mode, Ctl-Z does nothing. Some DOS programs have yet to alter their behavior and still place Ctl-Z at the end of disk files. This is also a bug, though if you want to support DOS 1.0, you could call it a feature. All this aside, IMHO, cat is inherently a binary program -- it shouldn't care whether newline is CR, LF, or CR+LF unless one of the line-based options is used (bns). BTW, I wouldn't recommend using binary mode. I tried that briefly and found that rebuilding will fail rather miserably. - Tim Iverson iverson AT cisco DOT com +---------------- | To: marc AT watson DOT ibm DOT com | cc: Win32 Mailing List | Subject: Re: cat and binary files | Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 17:22:26 -0400 | From: Ed Huott | | In message <9704091349 DOT AA39368 AT marc DOT watson DOT ibm DOT com>, Marc Auslander writes: | >cat seems to stop before the end of input - I assume at an end of file | >character. cat --help doesn't offer a binary flag. How can I cat | | Use the 'mount' command with the '-b' option to make sure that the .... | can be set to 1 to turn on the behavior where all files are treated as | binary (recommended). - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".