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Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 11:28:21 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Proposal for new cygwin flag: notextmode masks away O_TEXT
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On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 12:39:51PM +0200, dvasaru AT broadpark DOT no wrote:
>You're right of course, and I will not push for this very hard, but
>such a flag would ensure compatible results across platforms:
>
>file.txt:
>i have crlf\r\n
>and another one\r\n
>
>solaris> sed 's/crlf$/nocr/' file.txt
>i have crlf\r\n
>and another one\r\n

Works fine for me on a binmode or textmode mount, which is by
design.  sed should open its input in textmode and it's output
in binary mode.

>cygwin> sed 's/crlf$/nocr/' file.txt
>i have nocrlf\n
>and another one\n
>
>proposed:
>cygwin-notextmode> sed 's/crlf$/nocrlf/' file.txt
>i have crlf\r\n
>and another one\r\n
>
>Read also my comments below.

I think you have the tools you need, so I do not want to complicate
the binmode/textmode logic in cygwin with YA option.

That's it for me.

cgf

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