From: jeffdb AT netzone DOT com ("Mikey") Subject: Re: cat and binary files 10 Apr 1997 19:25:26 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199704102346.QAA19823.cygnus.gnu-win32@nz1.netzone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "Tim Iverson" Original-Cc: "cygnus" X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Rebuilding would only fail miserably, IF you didn't reinstall your headers, and source, after remounting with -b, UNIX, which gnu-win32 is supposed to be an emulation of, dosen't recognize CR as a necessary line delimiter, nor does it recognize in line EOF characters like ^Z. So if you want the tools to act like they do under unix, you should probably provide an environment as close to unix's as possible. > BTW, I wouldn't recommend using binary mode. I tried that briefly and > found that rebuilding will fail rather miserably. > 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".