From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
Cc: "cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com" <cygwin@hotpop.com>
Subject: RE: CR/LF and read is shell scripts
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20000822135709.00b33708@pop.ma.ultranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000822175729.9001.qmail@web125.yahoomail.com>
At 01:57 PM 8/22/2000, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com> wrote:
> >
> > If you want my opinion, cat under Cygwin should open files using the MS
> > text mode option (which reads text or binary files properly) and write
> > it as the target file system or pipe suggests by default. The flags you
> > suggest are fine options. Of course, they should work on files and
> > stdin/stdout in the same way.
> >
>
>Thanks, I did as for comments which of course include opinions. I want to
>point out though that processing binary files in text mode doesn't work.
>You'll not get all of the data from the binary file.
Right, if the file contains ^Z. What's the alternative?
Implement some of the text semantics to support text mode processing?
(should we move this discussion to another forum/off-line?)
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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2000-08-22 10:57 Earnie Boyd
2000-08-22 14:34 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [this message]
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2000-08-22 10:54 Earnie Boyd
2000-08-22 9:35 Fifer, Eric
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2000-08-22 11:30 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2000-08-22 8:03 Fifer, Eric
2000-08-18 7:39 Fifer, Eric
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2000-08-22 7:09 ` Eirik Nordbrøden
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