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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: "Nicolas Christin" <nicolas AT cs DOT virginia DOT edu>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Detecting text type in a shell script
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 19:33:03 -0000
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Nicolas Christin wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
>
>> Have you tried linking you app with -lbinmode ? That should force all
>> file access to be binary, whatever the mount.
>
> No - but that's a very good point - worth trying out. Thanks a bunch.

You haven't said exactly what your program does, so I can't be sure, but
there is also -lautomode, which (IIRC) does text reads and binary writes.

Remember - When reading in binary mode, your program may receive \r\n line
terminations if that is what the file actually contains.


Max.


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