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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 08:58:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: RE: CR/LF and read is shell scripts
To: "Fifer, Eric" <EFifer AT sanwaint DOT com>,
        "'Eirik_Nordbrøden'" <eirik DOT nordbroden AT scandpower DOT no>,
        cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- "Fifer, Eric" <EFifer AT sanwaint DOT com> wrote:
> 
> >Anyone that has got an idea?
> 
> Try something like 'sed -n p' instead of 'cat'.
> 
> The cat currently included with cygwin does not
> work correctly on text mounts.  See my previous
> email for details.
> 

Let me see if IIRC.  You, Eric Fifer, had said that cat is forcing binary mode
file processing regardless of the text/binary mode default settings.  Cat,
IIRC, comes from the textutils package.  This implies that cat is a text
utility and processing of files should default to text mode processing.

IIRC, you had also suggested a switch --binmode for processing binary files
with cat.  I believe that this should be the case.  So given this cat should be
changed to:

Process stdin in text mode and stdout in binary mode.
Process stdin and stdout in binary mode if --binmode is given.
Process stdin and stdout in text mode if --textmode is given.
Process stdin in binary if --binmode-in is given.
Process stdout in text mode if --textmode-out is given.
The switch --textmode-in and --binmode-out should also be supported.

Comments?

Cheers,

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