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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 01:34:09 -0600
From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: two text/binary oddities (Users Guide Alert)
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In-Reply-To: <20040219232155.GC23994@redhat.com>; from cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com on Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:21:55PM -0500

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:21:55PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:37:12PM +0000, Robert R Schneck wrote:
> >Short form:
> >1) "cat > foo" creates foo with DOS line endings... no matter what.
> >2) A control-Z in a file doesn't act as end-of-file in text mode, 
> >despite what the Cygwin User's Guide says.
> 
> Joshua, could you remove anything which indicates that CTRL-Z is
> equivalent to an EOF from the user's guide?

Done. The CYGWIN=tty section now reads, "Defaults to not set, in which case the
tty is opened in text mode. Note that this has been changed such that ^D works
as expected instead of ^Z, and is settable via stty." Does this sound accurate?

I also removed the sentence "On reading in text mode, a CR followed by an NL is
deleted and a ^Z character signals the end of file" from the Using Text and
Binary Modes section, the whole of which seems somewhat outdated. Ah,
(volunteer) job security.

I also changed all mentions of ^M to ^S, just to be mean. (Just kidding.)

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