Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000822135709.00b33708@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:04:50 -0400 To: Earnie Boyd From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: RE: CR/LF and read is shell scripts Cc: "cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com" In-Reply-To: <20000822175729.9001.qmail@web125.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:57 PM 8/22/2000, Earnie Boyd wrote: >--- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote: > > > > If you want my opinion, cat under Cygwin should open files using the MS > > text mode option (which reads text or binary files properly) and write > > it as the target file system or pipe suggests by default. The flags you > > suggest are fine options. Of course, they should work on files and > > stdin/stdout in the same way. > > > >Thanks, I did as for comments which of course include opinions. I want to >point out though that processing binary files in text mode doesn't work. >You'll not get all of the data from the binary file. Right, if the file contains ^Z. What's the alternative? Implement some of the text semantics to support text mode processing? (should we move this discussion to another forum/off-line?) Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com