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RE: CR/LF and read is shell scripts
- To: "Larry Hall \(RFK Partners, Inc\)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Subject: RE: CR/LF and read is shell scripts
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:57:29 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: cygwin users <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
--- "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.
Cheers,
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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