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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:49:59 -0500
To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>,
        Antony Courtney <antony AT apocalypse DOT org>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: binary mode from non-Cygwin shells?
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At 11:44 AM 11/29/2000, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > 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.


It works.  I tested it with 1.1.6.  This seems to indicate the default
when CYGWIN isn't set has slipped to "nobinmode"...


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