Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: File reading problem with -mno-cygwin Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 12:40:46 -0700 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3D7661BE.3000903@Salira.com> References: <200209041400.g84E0T2H015234@im1.sec.tds.net> <3D7625E2.8040109@DeFaria.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.184.204.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031168357 21823 206.184.204.2 (4 Sep 2002 19:39:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 19:39:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ru, zh Andrew DeFaria wrote: > jdhagen@chorus.net wrote: > >> As Corinna mentioned, opening the file in binary mode would eliminate >> the problem. >> >> The data file "sf" actually contains a byte 0x1A that is interpreted >> in text mode on DOS / Windows >> systems as end-of-file. >> >> In binary mode, this won't be interpreted as end-of-file. > > Thanks. Actually I figured this out about 1 - 2 hours after I posted. > I still have some other problems in my process but this one that I > isolated has been resolved. One question remains however and that is why would it work in Cygwin but not in -mno-cygwin? My theory is that opening a file with "r" under Cygwin is equivalent to "rb". -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/