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 Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 18:19:13 -0700 From: Geoffrey Noer To: Jeffry T Ross Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Cat and Head Problems with Binary Files Message-ID: <19990723181913.A28022@cygnus.com> References: <19990723003124.545.rocketmail@web106.yahoomail.com> <000301bed4a5$424282a0$0f8e5381@Toeplitz.mitre.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <000301bed4a5$424282a0$0f8e5381@Toeplitz.mitre.org>; from Jeffry T Ross on Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 08:49:45PM -0400 On Thu, Jul 22, 1999, Jeffry T Ross wrote: > > Who ever said that cat and head are textutils? > On the Unix side of the world they're commonly used > on binary files. Yes, I consider the current state to be broken for this reason but nobody has volunteered to fix it so... In DJGPP I believe there is a set of patches that addresses this problem by adding a flag to all of these programs so that people can specify whether they are (for example) catting a binary or text file. These patches have not yet been applied/enabled for the Cygwin ports. If someone would volunteer to make them work for Cygwin and submit the changes to the FSF maintainers (and perhaps to the cygwin-developers list), I'm sure many people would be appreciative. Best regards, -- Geoffrey Noer Email: noer@cygnus.com Cygnus Solutions -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com