From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Heribert Dahms To: "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" Subject: RE: New sed in latest Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 14:26:00 -0000 Message-id: <99B82AA9708ED0119B55006097125A00363EAA@ifk63.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de> X-SW-Source: 2000-06/msg00091.html Hi Chris, the misunderstanding seems to be on my side, since od always dumping is what I expect, but that isn't the same as the mentioned change to bash with regard to smart ignoring of DOS line endings? Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de) > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Faylor [SMTP:cgf@cygnus.com] > Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 23:13 > To: 'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com' > Subject: Re: New sed in latest > > On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 10:51:55PM +0200, Heribert Dahms wrote: > >what about something like CYGWIN=force_binary for those who need it? > >If you change od, I'd like that and/or --binary, since I routinely > use > >od -c to check for \r. > > I don't understand the question. I'm talking about *fixing* tools > like 'od' > which do not always open their contents in binary mode as they should. > > I'm not going to be sweeping through all of the tools provided with > cygwin > and indiscriminately making them read their input in text mode. > > od was probably a bad example since I don't know if it is broken or > not. > The last time I checked, I thought it was, but I have just checked it > and > it is working as expected. > > So 'od' does not have to be touched. It correctly opens the file in > binary > mode and accurately dumps the contents. > > cgf > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com