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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Why binary mode?
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On Feb 22 11:12, Sven Severus wrote:
> $ mount
> c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type 
> system (binmode)
> C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (textmode)
> C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (textmode)
> c:\cygwin\tmp on /tmp type system (binmode)
> C:\cygwin on / type system (textmode)
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  Your home is mounted textmode.

> c: on /c type system (textmode)
> $ pwd
> /home/es_sv
> $ echo peng >p.txt && CO=$(cat p.txt) && od -c <<<"$CO"
> 0000000   p   e   n   g  \r  \n
> 0000006

Which explains this behaviour.  The tools are using the default mode,
which is textmode in your case.  I suggest replacing all textmode
mounts with binmode mounts.


Corinna

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