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To: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, s DOT schuberth AT tu-bs DOT de, bug-coreutils AT gnu DOT org
Subject: Re: DD converts LF -> CR / LF
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From: Paul Eggert <eggert AT CS DOT UCLA DOT EDU>
Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 08:02:30 -0700
In-Reply-To: <427CDB49.8030804@byu.net> (Eric Blake's message of "Sat, 07 May 2005 09:14:17 -0600")
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Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net> writes:

> it now defaults to the underlying mount mode when the user does not
> specify binary or text.  In my opinion, dd should default to binary
> when neither text nor binary is specified

Hmm, overriding the explicit advice of the system administrator?
How common is it for file systems to be mounted in text mode?  Why
would anyone do such a thing?  If it's sufficiently rare, then dd
shouldn't need to worry about it.

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