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Re: \r\n's and the like...


Thanks. I was wondering because yesterday i wanted to test backup-files
(tars) being transmitted via the net, which kinda failed. When i started
downloading the file it was all right. At about 2mg/10mg windows moved it to
my desktop as if it was fully downloaded. When opened it got a corrupted
message from winrar (which can't write to the tar only read from it). So i
thought that could be the thing. The tar file did have a tone of linefeeds
on the end...

Elfyn McBratney
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Starks-Browning" <starksb@ebi.ac.uk>
To: "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn@exposure.org.uk>
Cc: "Cygwin ML" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 11:16 AM
Subject: \r\n's and the like...


> On Thursday 27 Jun 02, Elfyn McBratney writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Im writing a backup script for our systems and i was wondering if the
the
> > line endings will affect the files when and if they are restored. I read
> > somewhere that when cygwin opens or writes files it has a slightly
different
> > line-ending...
> >
> > The files and or directory trees would be tarred up and then untarred
when
> > restored.
>
> No *Cygwin* backup/restore solutions (tar, rsync, ...) should modify
> your files in this way.  If any do, please report it.  On the other
> hand, Windows applications (e.g. WinZip) could very possible do that
> sort of thing.
>
> Regards,
> David
>
>
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