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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 21:11:54 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: dos2unix/d2u does nothing
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Fred,

It works OK for me. You may be experiencing an interaction with a text mode 
mount (though from the looks of it, "conv.c" was ported for cygwin to open 
files in binary mode, so this shouldn't happen).

As to the mod time, perhaps you wrote the file and then converted it within 
the same minute, so "ls -l" doesn't show a change in the modification time 
(even though the difference is there at the finer time resolution that the 
OS and / or file system uses to record file modification times).

By the way, dos2unix and d2u are identical (byte-for-byte).

The other thing I can think of is that you're not running the dos2unix from 
the "cygutils" package, that the version you're running was not ported to 
Cygwin to be immune to the mount type and (conceivably) that it resets the 
file's modification time after reformatting it.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 20:36 2002-11-22, Shing-Fat Fred Ma wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I'm finding that dos2unix and d2u doesn't change a file in-place, even 
>with -U (the timestamp doesn't even change).  It works find for 
>stdin-to-stdout, though.   Just thought I'd share my feelings on that 
>(that is, I feel it doesn't work in-place, but thank goodness it works).
>
>Fred


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