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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 08:44:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: binary mode from non-Cygwin shells?
To: Antony Courtney <antony AT apocalypse DOT org>
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--- Antony Courtney <antony AT apocalypse DOT org> wrote:
> Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > 
> 
> Nevertheless:
> 
> > You will find that if you set CYGWIN=nobinmode before executing your
> > command.com example od will read in text mode and the \r will be
> eliminated.
> > Or, if you use the echo executable found in the Cygwin/bin directory
> instead of
> > the shell builtin the \r will not be written.
> 
> Nope.  If I leave CYGWIN unset, and run the Cygwin echo.exe explicitly:
> 
> d:\users\antony>c:\cygwin\bin\echo.exe hello |od -c
> 0000000000     h   e   l   l   o  \r  \n
> 0000000007
> 

Ok, what happens if you `set CYGWIN=binmode' before you execute this?  Yea, I
could test it but I don't have access to *your* environment.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com

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