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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 17:51:27 -0500
To: Gareth Williams <dgwilliams AT dera DOT gov DOT uk>
Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com, gareth AT dgwsoft DOT co DOT uk
Subject: Re: 0x1a bug - its not just awk
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In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991122203517.00924d50@146.80.9.11>; from dgwilliams@dera.gov.uk on Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 08:35:17PM +0000

On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 08:35:17PM +0000, Gareth Williams wrote:
>I just downloaded B20.1 and compiled a few C++ programs under NT4.
>Those that write data work fine. Those that read fail on the byte
>0x1a.
>
>I have seen the reports that awk can not read the byte 0x1a.

If you've seen the reports, you should be aware that this is not a bug
but a feature.  This character is considered to be an EOF character by
both cygwin and MSVC.

The solution is to use binary mounts, i.e., mount the directory using
the -b option:

mount -b c:\somedir /somedir

That will cause files in that directory to be interpreted as normal UNIX
streams of bytes.

cgf

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