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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 19:24:08 -0400
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Erroneous line endings (cat,gawk,text mount)
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On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 10:54:41PM +0100, Peter S Tillier wrote:
> Replying to Igor Pechtchanski who wrote:
> 
> > Also, "cat" will not translate line endings or anything at all --
> > it's just a character-by-character copy of stdin to stdout.
> 
> Fair enough (and what I expect it to be) thanks for the clarification.

Igor, how do you explain the following behavior?
~: od -c
abc
0000000   a   b   c  \n
0000004
~: cat | od -c
abc
0000000   a   b   c  \r  \n
0000005
This is with CYGWIN undefined and stty -igncr icrnl
I get the \r no matter what I try for CYGWIN and stty.

Pierre

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