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Re: binary mode from non-Cygwin shells?


--- 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
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

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