From: noer@cygnus.com (Geoffrey Noer) Subject: Re: Ctrl-Z 9 Aug 1997 01:18:21 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199708090727.AAA26697.cygnus.gnu-win32@rtl.cygnus.com> Content-Type: text Original-To: root@jacob.remcomp.fr (root) Original-Cc: mchase@ix.netcom.com, gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: from "root" at Aug 8, 97 08:12:08 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com [...] > 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... Cheers, Geoffrey Noer noer@cygnus.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".