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-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: Text file created from the keyboard is DOS termninated Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 21:25:43 -0500 Message-ID: <83040F98B407E6428FEC18AC720F5D732DB777@exchange.tropicnetworks.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Rolf Campbell" To: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id gB82Pru04399 Your are using textmode mounts. Worx fine with binmode: /home/rcampbell> cat > a << A > a > a > A /home/rcampbell> od -tx1 < a 0000000 61 0a 61 0a 0000004 > -----Original Message----- > From: fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net [mailto:fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net] > Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 3:10 PM > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Cc: fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net > Subject: Text file created from the keyboard is DOS termninated > > > I am set up for "Unix" rather than "DOS" and created a text > file directly from the keyboard by typing > > $ cat > textfile > this is line1 > this is line2 > > $ > > It turns out that the two-line file textfile created by this > method, is DOS-terminated. I was kind of thinking it would > (should?) be Unix-terminated. I know there are 100 threads on > line termination, but in contexts more sophisticated than > this. Please can somebody tell me whether this is a bug; or > meant to happen (if so, why); or comment with assurance that > my "Unix" set-up must be faulty in some way (correctable?) > > Thank you. By the way, if I try > > $ cat > textfile << X > > this is line1 > > this is line2 > > X > $ > > (where > is the provided prompt) then the two-line file > textfile is Unix-terminated. > > Fergus > > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/