Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <20000822175729.9001.qmail@web125.yahoomail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:57:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Subject: RE: CR/LF and read is shell scripts To: "Larry Hall \(RFK Partners, Inc\)" Cc: cygwin users MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote: > > If you want my opinion, cat under Cygwin should open files using the MS > text mode option (which reads text or binary files properly) and write > it as the target file system or pipe suggests by default. The flags you > suggest are fine options. Of course, they should work on files and > stdin/stdout in the same way. > Thanks, I did as for comments which of course include opinions. I want to point out though that processing binary files in text mode doesn't work. You'll not get all of the data from the binary file. Cheers, ===== --- Earnie Boyd: __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ Mingw32 List: Mingw Home: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com