From: kunglao@prairienet.org Subject: Re: cat and binary files 11 Apr 1997 07:07:23 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199704111232.HAA12439.cygnus.gnu-win32@bluestem.prairienet.org> References: <9704091349.AA39368@marc.watson.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Comments: Authenticated sender is Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-reply-to: <9704101917.AA21816@marc.watson.ibm.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.53/R1) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com > I tried doing binary mounts with the following results. > > 1. cat now produces a file larger than the sum of the input file > sizes. > > 2. bash gets confused reading .bashrc > > 3. I don't know how to get binary while using explicit path notation. > > So I'll go back to text mode mounts for now, and if necessary write a > cat that works. It took some work to switch to an all binary-mounted system. What'll solve most problems is getting the dos2unix package. I know .bashrc needs to be converted to just have lf's, instead of the cr/lf's. I have that, and the groff/man commands on my ftp site, ftp://ftp.ice.net/pub/home/python - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".