Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/08/09/16:59:30
In article <199708090727 DOT AAA26697 AT rtl DOT cygnus DOT com>,
Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
>[...]
>>Ctrl-Z IS NOT USED FOR MARKING THE END OF FILE SINCE MS-DOS
>>2.0!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>>Does gnu-win32 want to be compatible with DOS 1.0?
>>
>>The real problem behind this, and that is why it makes me mad, is that
>>nobody at Cygnus is reading this bug reports, so the same unfixed bugs
>>remain
>[...]
>
>Nope, I read them. :-)
>
>Believe it or not, we have customers who have huge source bases where
>all their files end in ^Zs. Even if we didn't have ^Z as EOF, people
>would still run into the carriage return/line feed conversion part of
>the text mode != binary mode picture whenever binary files are read in
>text mode.
>
>Hopefully adding binary flags to some of the utilities will help...
I have submitted a patch to Sergey for cygwin.dll which incorporated a new
environment variable, CYGWIN32, to honor the following settable options:
[no]title
[no]tty
[no]binmode
So, you could do the following:
set CYGWIN32=notitle binmode
bash
and bash would not update the title bars and would use binmode as the default
for opens.
I had intended to extend this to allow registry entries to be used which
would would be settable based on the path of the executing program.
That means that you could tell 'cat' to always operate in default
binmode and 'tar' to always operate in binmode.
Would this solve any problems?
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VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can be."
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