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From: "Michael A Chase" <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
To: <trodman AT nyx DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <200202241243 DOT GAA02149 AT tigris DOT pounder DOT sol DOT net>
Subject: Re: "$(dothis)" construct acts as a text tool in pipe (\r removed)
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 16:23:34 -0800
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----- Original Message -----
From: <trodman AT nyx DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 04:43
Subject: "$(dothis)" construct acts as a text tool in pipe (\r removed)


> at first glance, this seems inconsistent to me; comments anyone?:
> --v-v------------------C-U-T---H-E-R-E-------------------------v-v--
> > 06:36:47 Sun Feb 24  /adm/bin/sys/s
> > WS011206 adm > uname -a;echo "$(echo X$'\r')" |od -a ; echo X$'\r'|od -a
> CYGWIN_NT-4.0 WS011206 1.3.9(0.51/3/2) 2002-01-21 12:48 i686 unknown
> 0000000   X  nl
> 0000002
> 0000000   X  cr  nl
> 0000003
> --v-v------------------C-U-T---H-E-R-E-------------------------v-v--
> > 06:34:32 Sun Feb 24  ~
> > CMKE755 adm > uname -a;echo "$(echo X$'\r')" |od -a ; echo X$'\r'|od -a
> CYGWIN_NT-4.0 CMKE755 21.0 (0.14/2/2) 1999-9-13 20:44:35 i686 unknown
> 0000000   X  cr  nl
> 0000003
> 0000000   X  cr  nl
> 0000003

It looks like the second machine has a seriously outdated version of Cygwin.
I wouldn't expect Win 3.1 and WinXP to behave identically in all situations,
why should Cygwin 1.3.9 act identically to Beta 21?  The handling of pipes
has changed several times in the interim.
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