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Re: Bug in od, cat, etc reading binary files
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Bug in od, cat, etc reading binary files
- From: pete at horus dot cix dot co dot uk (Pete Jordan)
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 2:30 +0100 (BST)
- Organization: Horus Communications
- Reply-To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
marcus@bighorn.dr.lucent.com () wrote:
> It seems that the thing that causes the most problems communicating
> with each other is the wholesale mounting of filesystems in binary
> mode. This cures some big problems in the Unix view of processes in
> the cygwin world, but makes it totally impossible to share text files
> between the cygwin world and the rest of the NT/W95 world.
Eh? All my mounts are binary and it causes me virtually no problems at
all. My (Windows) text editor both understands and can be persuaded to
create LF-terminated files, VC++ is happy with them, in fact most apps are
(Delphi being the only notable exception here).
Where's the problem?
Pete Jordan ~ Horus Communications ~ http://www.horus.cix.co.uk/
"Is a polar bear a rectangular bear after a coordinate transform?"
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