From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: echo is wrong... 13 Apr 1998 08:46:46 -0700 Message-ID: <19980413121332.20133.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1a.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Larry Hall Cc: gw32 ---Larry Hall wrote: > b19* versions of bash (2.0.1) are hardcoded to force the pipes to be text > again. I didn't even realize this myself until Sergey pointed it out. > He had recompiled a version to keep pipes as binary for b18 and I got so > used to having it that way, I forgot Cygnus would change it back when I upgraded to b19! I'm building a new bash now so the world is right again!;-) > This explains why what you did works from the DOS prompt and not from inside > bash. I guess bash should really be changed to look at the bin setting in > CYGWIN32 environment variable so that this is more configurable... Why? Who in there right mind would want anything but binary pipe reads? What purpose would text pipes give? I can't think of any. Pipes should always just pass along any data received. They should never do anything with the data, including interpret a ^Z as the end of file. - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- > > > Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com > RFK Partners, Inc. (781) 239-1053 > 8 Grove Street (781) 239-1655 - FAX > Wellesley, MA 02181 http://www.rfk.com > - > 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". > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - 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".