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From: Eric Blossom <Eric AT BlossomAssociates DOT net>
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Subject: Fwd: Re: Cygwin Text File Line Endings
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:10:07 -0800
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To: Eric Blossom <Eric AT BlossomAssociates DOT net>
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I no longer participate with the same interests to the Cygwin project.  
You need to voice your concerns with cygwin AT cygwin DOT com.

Earnie

Eric Blossom wrote:

>Dear Mr. Boyd,
>
>I read with interest the Cygwin FAQ section about DOS/Unix line 
>endings. The FAQ claimed it was adapted from a mailing list 
>missive that was written by you. However, it does not match my 
>experience. I have a program that I've been using for over a 
>decade now with success on many differnt computers. It fixes line 
>endings. It reads text files in in binary mode and writes them out 
>in text mode. This does not work with cygwin. The line endings 
>come out as a single LF character. The FAQ makes it sound like it 
>should come out as CRLF. Perhaps the FAQ should be updated, or 
>perhaps I'm just confused.
>
>all the best,
>Eric Blossom
>
>  
>


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