Re: Making Cygwin write DOS style text files

[Glenn Spell <glenn at gs dot fay dot nc dot us>]

On 29 Sep 1999 around 8:08PM (+0200) Rabbe Fogelholm wrote:

> [...] but other users out there will think that my Cygwin-based
> script does a poor job if it produces files that "look weird" in
> the Microsoft environment.
>
> So, while I consider the CR LF convention to be among the stupidest
> of this century, I still have to stick to it :-(.

You have been assimilated. :-)

Although not as elegant as awk, you may find Rahul Dhesi's
'flip' useful. There's a Cygwin port with man pages at
<http://www.fay.nc.us/~glenn/cygwin/flip-1.00.tgz>.

> It turns out that I was on a text!=binary mount, and that creating
> a text=binary mount did not solve my problem (either way I get
> files with a single LF as the end-of-line sequence).

I don't understand why you're getting those type files with text
mounts (text!=binary). I use text mounts and only text mounts on
Win95 to achieve what I think you are after. Most files created with
Cygwin tools on my setup have CR/LF pairs for line endings. I thought
that was the purpose of text mounts!

I know the above paragraph doesn't help you but perhaps someone else
may have some idea as to why we get different results.

Can you give me a test case?

-glenn

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