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Subject:  Re: Fixing the state of C++ in Cygwin
Date:  Sun, 16 Apr 2006 20:21:38 -0700
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Steven Brown wrote:

> Steven Brown AT FICTITION ~/src
> $ cat << EOF | file -
>  > foo
>  > EOF
> /dev/stdin: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators
[...]
> Is this by design or a bug?  It seems like the wrong thing for it to be 
> doing.

The cause of this is apparently /tmp being a textmode mount.  If 
switched to binary, cat << EOF works as expected.  Is that really what's 
supposed to happen?  It doesn't seem right that a system configured to 
act binmode is going textmode just due to using '<< EOF' syntax.


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