From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Mikey" To: "Tim Iverson" Cc: "cygnus" Subject: Re: cat and binary files Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 16:50:00 -0000 Message-id: <199704102346.QAA19823@nz1.netzone.com> X-SW-Source: 1997-04/msg00186.html Rebuilding would only fail miserably, IF you didn't reinstall your headers, and source, after remounting with -b, UNIX, which gnu-win32 is supposed to be an emulation of, dosen't recognize CR as a necessary line delimiter, nor does it recognize in line EOF characters like ^Z. So if you want the tools to act like they do under unix, you should probably provide an environment as close to unix's as possible. > BTW, I wouldn't recommend using binary mode. I tried that briefly and > found that rebuilding will fail rather miserably. > writes: > | >cat seems to stop before the end of input - I assume at an end of file > | >character. cat --help doesn't offer a binary flag. How can I cat > | > | Use the 'mount' command with the '-b' option to make sure that the > ... > | can be set to 1 to turn on the behavior where all files are treated as > | binary (recommended). > - - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".