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Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 21:21:50 -0800
From: Earl Chew <earl_chew AT agilent DOT com>
Organization: Agilent Technologies
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Subject: Re: Perl binmode problem on text mount
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Earl Chew wrote:
> 
>>This code used to work on Perl 5.6.1-2 on Cygwin 1.3.10.
>>
>>I've now moved to Perl 5.8.5-3 on Cygwin 1.5.11.
>>
>>Here is the Perl program:
>>
>>	binmode STDOUT;
>>	print "Hello\n";
>>
>>1. Output to file on text mount
>>
>>	perl foo.pl > foo.txt ; od -c foo.txt
>>
>>	0000000  H e l l o \r \n	# Perl 5.8.5-3 Cygwin 1.5.11
>>	0000000  H e l l o \n		# Perl 5.6.1-2 Cygwin 1.3.10
[ .. snip .. ]
> This is expected behavior.  Unless you use raw writes (as "cat" does), the
> mode of the file (text or binary) is determined *by the program that opens
> the file*.  In the above case, the program is not perl, it's your shell.

I think you're telling me that "binmode STDOUT" has no effect. I find
this counterintuitive.

Without "binmode STDOUT", I can see how your explanation would work.

Earl

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