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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:46:24 -0400
To: lau bella <bellalauhk AT yahoo DOT com DOT hk>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Append: file contains ^M characters for binmode mount
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At 06:33 AM 4/23/2002, lau bella wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Append to previous message, i found somethings:
>1/ When i run bash script in cygwin, e.g.
>    #!/bin/bash
>    echo "123" >> output_file
>    echo "456" >> output_file
>    echo "789" >> output_file
>    
>    the output file is in unix mode, i.e. without ^M at
>the end of each line. 
>
>2/ When i run perl (cygwin perl), exp (export of
>oracle) and ftp in cygwin, the output files are in DOS
>format. When i vi the output files, the ^M is not
>appear in vi, but at the bottom of screen, it shows 
>
>"fileabc" [dos format] 3 lines, 209 characters
>
>Is the output_file generated by other software (e.g.
>oracle, perl) should generated as DOS mode, even run
>in cygwin ? But perl is bundled by cygwin.


Yep.  Historically, this has been an issue for Perl (from Cygwin).  I believe
the issue persists.  Check the email archives if you want more information.



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