Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 10:36:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cbfalconer AT worldnet DOT att DOT net cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: vs and use of diff In-Reply-To: <3DB0CB05.66E0955A@yahoo.com> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, CBFalconer wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, CBFalconer wrote: > > > ... snip ... > > > > > > I also thought that I had read somewhere that the cygwin libraries > > > generated output lines, but it is obviously not so. > > > > mount the directory with DJPP makefiles in text mode. Then the newly > > produced files will have crlf line endings. > > I just created the directory and unzipped into there. Showed up a > couple of glitches in my published work :-). How do we "mount in > text mode"? 'man mount'. If you want crlf sent through pipes, check out the binmode setting in the CYGWIN environment variable (in the User Guide). > BTW attacking this has shown up a couple of Cygwin glitches. bash > won't run a MSDOS .com file, even though it is in the path. > Piping doesn't work to DOS utilities. Also stdin redirection to > DOS utilities doesn't work - maybe the same bug. These utilities > detect that stdin is NOT the console, and act accordingly. I think the 'tty' setting in the CYGWIN environment variable may be responsible for this, people will correct me if I'm wrong... Details in the User Guide. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/