* fileutil cat program
@ 1999-06-17 16:21 Earnie Boyd
1999-06-17 16:39 ` DJ Delorie
1999-06-30 22:10 ` Earnie Boyd
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From: Earnie Boyd @ 1999-06-17 16:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin users
Could someone whose already signed the Cygnus release forms submit a patch for
the cat program such that if the output is to a pipe or redirection that the
input is processed in binary mode?
TIA,
Earnie.
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* Re: fileutil cat program
1999-06-17 16:21 fileutil cat program Earnie Boyd
@ 1999-06-17 16:39 ` DJ Delorie
1999-06-30 22:10 ` DJ Delorie
1999-06-30 22:10 ` Earnie Boyd
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: DJ Delorie @ 1999-06-17 16:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: earnie_boyd; +Cc: cygwin
First off, such a patch would be too small to warrant legal papers.
It would probably look like "if (!isatty(0)) setmode(1, O_BINARY);"
Second, is this really what you want? The DJGPP port of fileutils
uses "-b" to indicate binary mode. Doing it automatically may create
subtle bugs.
> Could someone whose already signed the Cygnus release forms submit a
> patch for the cat program such that if the output is to a pipe or
> redirection that the input is processed in binary mode?
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* Re: fileutil cat program
1999-06-17 16:39 ` DJ Delorie
@ 1999-06-30 22:10 ` DJ Delorie
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From: DJ Delorie @ 1999-06-30 22:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: earnie_boyd; +Cc: cygwin
First off, such a patch would be too small to warrant legal papers.
It would probably look like "if (!isatty(0)) setmode(1, O_BINARY);"
Second, is this really what you want? The DJGPP port of fileutils
uses "-b" to indicate binary mode. Doing it automatically may create
subtle bugs.
> Could someone whose already signed the Cygnus release forms submit a
> patch for the cat program such that if the output is to a pipe or
> redirection that the input is processed in binary mode?
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* fileutil cat program
1999-06-17 16:21 fileutil cat program Earnie Boyd
1999-06-17 16:39 ` DJ Delorie
@ 1999-06-30 22:10 ` Earnie Boyd
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From: Earnie Boyd @ 1999-06-30 22:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin users
Could someone whose already signed the Cygnus release forms submit a patch for
the cat program such that if the output is to a pipe or redirection that the
input is processed in binary mode?
TIA,
Earnie.
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* Re: fileutil cat program
1999-06-18 4:42 Earnie Boyd
@ 1999-06-30 22:10 ` Earnie Boyd
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From: Earnie Boyd @ 1999-06-30 22:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: DJ Delorie; +Cc: cygwin
--- DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com> wrote:
>
> First off, such a patch would be too small to warrant legal papers.
> It would probably look like "if (!isatty(0)) setmode(1, O_BINARY);"
more like "if (!isatty(1)) setmode(0, O_BINARY);"
>
> Second, is this really what you want? The DJGPP port of fileutils
> uses "-b" to indicate binary mode. Doing it automatically may create
> subtle bugs.
The -b is already take for "number nonblank output lines", however, I've never
used this switch so I'd be in favor of changing the meaning.
>
> > Could someone whose already signed the Cygnus release forms submit a
> > patch for the cat program such that if the output is to a pipe or
> > redirection that the input is processed in binary mode?
>
Thanks,
Earnie.
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* Re: fileutil cat program
@ 1999-06-18 4:42 Earnie Boyd
1999-06-30 22:10 ` Earnie Boyd
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From: Earnie Boyd @ 1999-06-18 4:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: DJ Delorie; +Cc: cygwin
--- DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com> wrote:
>
> First off, such a patch would be too small to warrant legal papers.
> It would probably look like "if (!isatty(0)) setmode(1, O_BINARY);"
more like "if (!isatty(1)) setmode(0, O_BINARY);"
>
> Second, is this really what you want? The DJGPP port of fileutils
> uses "-b" to indicate binary mode. Doing it automatically may create
> subtle bugs.
The -b is already take for "number nonblank output lines", however, I've never
used this switch so I'd be in favor of changing the meaning.
>
> > Could someone whose already signed the Cygnus release forms submit a
> > patch for the cat program such that if the output is to a pipe or
> > redirection that the input is processed in binary mode?
>
Thanks,
Earnie.
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