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Re: binary mode from non-Cygwin shells?
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: binary mode from non-Cygwin shells?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:22:52 -0500
- References: <20001129201228.8576.qmail@web112.yahoomail.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:12:28PM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> We changed the default some time ago at the request of an, er, customer
>> who was distressed at seeing files with \n's and no \r\n's.
>>
>> Pipes have nothing to do with this. The standard output of a program
>> is controlled by the CYGWIN=[no]binmode setting when the program is
>> run outside of a cygwin environment.
>>
>> Undoubtedly the documentation has not been updated to reflect this.
>>
>
>So, if a customer wants it changed to default to binmode, what would he have to
>do? ;?
Yes sir! I'll change it sir!
Especially if the customer is Intel.
But, seriously, I actually thought that defaulting to nobinmode when
running from a Windows prompt made sense or I wouldn't have changed it.
I obviously should have changed the documentation, too.
cgf
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