From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Earnie Boyd" To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com, marcus@bighorn.dr.lucent.com Subject: Re: Bug in od, cat, etc reading binary files Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 11:34:00 -0000 Message-id: <19970926183330.261.qmail@hotmail.com> X-SW-Source: 1997-09/msg00661.html >From: marcus@bighorn.dr.lucent.com >Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 09:41:22 -0600 >To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com >Subject: Re: Bug in od, cat, etc reading binary files > >> >It seems to me that if one wants to port software into the NT environment >> >then one has no choice but to run the normal way NT programs do (without >> >> A. We are not porting to NT, we are porting to the cygwin32 API >> B. Most Un*x tools expect Binary IO, mounting without -b will break many configure scripts > >I have to agree with the original poster on this. What good is the cygwin32 >API on NT if it is not compatible with the rest of NT? If you are going to >only use programs running in the cygwin32 world, then why not just run Linux >instead and get better performance and better compatibility? If you're >running NT, it seems that you likely need it to run some other things that >only run on NT, so if cygwin32 is to be useful, it should also be able to >deal with files produced by or intended for these other programs. > >Sure, it may be a royal pain to have to deal with the compatibility problems, >and that's probably where a lot of the ugliness of NT comes from, but I think >that that's the reality of the NT world. If you don't want to be compatible >with the rest of the NT world, why try to run on NT in the first place? > >marcus hall >- Marcus The cygwin32 isn't for compatibility with NT it is to provide a mechanism for which those things that aren't can be ported to the win32 environment. Because of this the cygwin32 layer must try to be compatible to both worlds (which it does, nicely). The problem isn't cygwin32 it is the lack of tools ported without modification for binary versus text that is the problem. Therefore remaining in the binary format is not an alternative it becomes necessary. - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd@hotmail.com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".