From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" To: Earnie Boyd Cc: "cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com" Subject: RE: CR/LF and read is shell scripts Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:34:00 -0000 Message-id: <4.3.1.2.20000822135709.00b33708@pop.ma.ultranet.com> References: <20000822175729.9001.qmail@web125.yahoomail.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-08/msg00864.html At 01:57 PM 8/22/2000, Earnie Boyd wrote: >--- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" 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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com