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From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de>
To: "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: RE: New sed in latest
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 23:23:12 +0200
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Hi Chris,

the misunderstanding seems to be on my side,
since od always dumping is what I expect, but
that isn't the same as the mentioned change to bash
with regard to smart ignoring of DOS line endings?

Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chris Faylor [SMTP:cgf AT cygnus DOT com]
> Sent:	Friday, June 02, 2000 23:13
> To:	'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'
> Subject:	Re: New sed in latest
> 
> On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 10:51:55PM +0200, Heribert Dahms wrote:
> >what about something like CYGWIN=force_binary for those who need it?
> >If you change od, I'd like that and/or --binary, since I routinely
> use
> >od -c to check for \r.
> 
> I don't understand the question.  I'm talking about *fixing* tools
> like 'od'
> which do not always open their contents in binary mode as they should.
> 
> I'm not going to be sweeping through all of the tools provided with
> cygwin
> and indiscriminately making them read their input in text mode.
> 
> od was probably a bad example since I don't know if it is broken or
> not.
> The last time I checked, I thought it was, but I have just checked it
> and
> it is working as expected.
> 
> So 'od' does not have to be touched.  It correctly opens the file in
> binary
> mode and accurately dumps the contents.
> 
> cgf
> 
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