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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 18:19:13 -0700
From: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>
To: Jeffry T Ross <jtr AT mitre DOT org>
Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: Cat and Head Problems with Binary Files
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In-Reply-To: <000301bed4a5$424282a0$0f8e5381@Toeplitz.mitre.org>; from Jeffry T Ross on Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 08:49:45PM -0400

On Thu, Jul 22, 1999, Jeffry T Ross wrote:
>
> Who ever said that cat and head are textutils?
> On the Unix side of the world they're commonly used
> on binary files.

Yes, I consider the current state to be broken for this
reason but nobody has volunteered to fix it so...

In DJGPP I believe there is a set of patches that addresses this
problem by adding a flag to all of these programs so that
people can specify whether they are (for example) catting a
binary or text file.  These patches have not yet been applied/enabled
for the Cygwin ports.

If someone would volunteer to make them work for Cygwin and submit the
changes to the FSF maintainers (and perhaps to the cygwin-developers
list), I'm sure many people would be appreciative.

Best regards,

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Geoffrey Noer		Email: noer AT cygnus DOT com
Cygnus Solutions

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