* echo fails to behave and documented
@ 1999-03-07 3:18 R I Feigenblatt
1999-03-31 19:45 ` R I Feigenblatt
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From: R I Feigenblatt @ 1999-03-07 3:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gnu-win32
I had written:
>Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 15:06:08 -0500
>How come *** echo *** does NOT work as documented?
After I added SET CYGWIN="binmode tty"
to my environment and changed my file mounts to
text=binary mode, the problems I reported vanished.
Thanks for the help guys; next time I RTFM. <G>
Ron Feigenblatt
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* echo fails to behave and documented
1999-03-07 3:18 echo fails to behave and documented R I Feigenblatt
@ 1999-03-31 19:45 ` R I Feigenblatt
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From: R I Feigenblatt @ 1999-03-31 19:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gnu-win32
I had written:
>Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 15:06:08 -0500
>How come *** echo *** does NOT work as documented?
After I added SET CYGWIN="binmode tty"
to my environment and changed my file mounts to
text=binary mode, the problems I reported vanished.
Thanks for the help guys; next time I RTFM. <G>
Ron Feigenblatt
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* echo fails to behave and documented
1999-03-06 12:06 R I Feigenblatt
@ 1999-03-31 19:45 ` R I Feigenblatt
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From: R I Feigenblatt @ 1999-03-31 19:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gnu-win32
How come *** echo *** does NOT work as documented? (See below.)
Why is octal 012 changed to the two-character sequence CR-LF?
Yeah, I know DOS/Windows likes CR-LF.
Please change behaviour or docs!
Ron Feigenblatt
*** ENCLOSURE FOLLOWS (Cygwin Beta 20.1 on Win 98) ***
BASH.EXE-2.02$ echo -ne Line1\\012Line2> E:\\test.txt
E:\>dir test.txt
Volume in drive E is whatever
Volume Serial Number is whatever
Directory of E:\
TEST TXT 12 03-06-99 2:53p test.txt
1 file(s) 12 bytes
E:\>debug test.txt
-d
1168:0100 4C 69 6E 65 31 0D 0A 4C-69 6E 65 32 00 00 00 00 Line1..Line2....
BASH.EXE-2.02$ help echo
echo: echo [-neE] [arg ...]
Output the ARGs. If -n is specified, the trailing newline is
suppressed. If the -e option is given, interpretation of the
following backslash-escaped characters is turned on:
...
\num the character whose ASCII code is NUM (octal).
Ron Feigenblatt
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* echo fails to behave and documented
@ 1999-03-06 12:06 R I Feigenblatt
1999-03-31 19:45 ` R I Feigenblatt
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From: R I Feigenblatt @ 1999-03-06 12:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gnu-win32
How come *** echo *** does NOT work as documented? (See below.)
Why is octal 012 changed to the two-character sequence CR-LF?
Yeah, I know DOS/Windows likes CR-LF.
Please change behaviour or docs!
Ron Feigenblatt
*** ENCLOSURE FOLLOWS (Cygwin Beta 20.1 on Win 98) ***
BASH.EXE-2.02$ echo -ne Line1\\012Line2> E:\\test.txt
E:\>dir test.txt
Volume in drive E is whatever
Volume Serial Number is whatever
Directory of E:\
TEST TXT 12 03-06-99 2:53p test.txt
1 file(s) 12 bytes
E:\>debug test.txt
-d
1168:0100 4C 69 6E 65 31 0D 0A 4C-69 6E 65 32 00 00 00 00 Line1..Line2....
BASH.EXE-2.02$ help echo
echo: echo [-neE] [arg ...]
Output the ARGs. If -n is specified, the trailing newline is
suppressed. If the -e option is given, interpretation of the
following backslash-escaped characters is turned on:
...
\num the character whose ASCII code is NUM (octal).
Ron Feigenblatt
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