From: jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT netzone DOT com (Mikey) Subject: Re: Ctrl-Z 8 Aug 1997 16:34:03 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <33ec9735.1491438.cygnus.gnu-win32@smtp.netzone.com> References: Reply-To: jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT netzone DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: root AT jacob DOT remcomp DOT fr (root), gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.01/32.397 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Sadly Microsuck still uses ^Z in their SDK header files. In fact they use it to "hide" information from some of their own tools. On Fri, 8 Aug 1997 20:12:08 +0200 (MET DST), you wrote: >> >> Your filesystems are mounted in text mode by default by the initial >> gnuwin32 installation. That causes all files written by cat to have LF >> changed to CRLF and stop short at the MSDOS EOF mark (Ctrl-Z). >> > >This is CRAZY. We have discussed this a thousand times in this list, >in a span of several years: > >Ctrl-Z IS NOT USED FOR MARKING THE END OF FILE SINCE MS-DOS 2.0!!!!!!!!!!!! > >Does gnu-win32 want to be compatible with DOS 1.0? > >The real problem behind this, and that is why it makes me mad, is that nobody >at Cygnus is reading this bug reports, so the same unfixed bugs remain forever >and people fall into them over and over again. > >NOBODY uses Ctrl-Z to end a text file since AGES, at least 10 years or so. >WAKE-UP GUYS!!! > >-- >Jacob Navia Logiciels/Informatique >41 rue Maurice Ravel Tel 01 48.23.51.44 >93430 Villetaneuse Fax 01 48.23.95.39 >France >- >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". > (jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT netzone DOT com) delete REMOVETHIS from the above to reply Mikey - 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".