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Re: binary mode from non-Cygwin shells?
- To: Malcolm Boekhoff <Malcolm dot Boekhoff at actfs dot co dot uk>, Cygwin News Group <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: binary mode from non-Cygwin shells?
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 08:47:24 -0800 (PST)
--- Malcolm Boekhoff <Malcolm.Boekhoff@actfs.co.uk> wrote:
> > Nevertheless:
> >
> > > You will find that if you set CYGWIN=nobinmode before executing your
> > > command.com example od will read in text mode and the \r will be
> eliminated.
> > > Or, if you use the echo executable found in the Cygwin/bin directory
> instead of
> > > the shell builtin the \r will not be written.
> >
> > Nope. If I leave CYGWIN unset, and run the Cygwin echo.exe explicitly:
> >
> > d:\users\antony>c:\cygwin\bin\echo.exe hello |od -c
> > 0000000000 h e l l o \r \n
> > 0000000007
> >
>
> Is this because the pipe is being created by command.com and not bash?
>
The documentation is correct. The [no]binmode was created by Chris
specifically for executing Cygwin programs in the command.com/cmd.exe shell.
The default should be binmode. But, I may be the one confused.
Cheers,
=====
Earnie Boyd
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