Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <75F8791C7793D211B64D080036DE1504151C78@milton.sonosight.com> From: "Stewart, Wayne" To: "'earnie_boyd@yahoo.com'" , "Stewart, Wayne" Cc: cygwin users Subject: RE: HELP! - Please Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:22:57 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > > I would prefer to use /... (text!=binary) most of the time and > > cd to /cb/... (text=binary) when for example I want the 'cmp' > > command to compare both binary files in their entirety. > > Are you saying 'cmp' was not properly ported? > > If you have problems using cmp on binary files then yes it > wasn't properly > ported. The processing mode for cmp should always be binary > mode so just set > it that way in the source and it will always work. > I checked and it looks like the 'cmp' bug I referred to was fixed in the source code on July 1998. I'm not sure what release of cygwin it showed up in, but it's good to know I won't have to work around that one anymore. Sun Jul 5 19:20:00 1998 Christopher Faylor * configure.in: Add check for setmode so cygwin32 stuff works correctly. Thanks again, Wayne -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com