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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:57:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: RE: CR/LF and read is shell scripts
To: "Larry Hall \(RFK Partners, Inc\)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Cc: cygwin users <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
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--- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com> 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,

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   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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