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Re: expand changing DOS line endings to Unix line endings
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>
- To: David Christensen <dpchrist at holgerdanske dot com>
- Cc: 'Cygwin List' <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 11:58:46 +0100
- Subject: Re: expand changing DOS line endings to Unix line endings
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
David Christensen wrote:
Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
I took the textfile from the attachment which has actually two \r\n
at the end which are 78 bytes at all:
Thanks for your suggestion. I believe my copy of textfile.txt has one
CRLF pair at the end, and the length is 76 bytes:
Maybe an issue with your or my mailer?
I do not understand the subtleties of Cygwin textmode mounts and binmode
mounts. I do not recall taking any actions to affect this parameter --
my habit is to simply download Cygwin setup.exe, download packages to
the local disk, and install packages from the local disk. When I
suspect my Cygwin installation is corrupt, I rename C:\cygwin, do a
fresh download/ download/ install cycle, and move over my data. (Maybe
I need to do this again?)
Default setting is 'binmode' at the third setup.exe panel where you
define the 'Default Text File Type' -> 'Unix' *or* 'DOS'
... please install coreutils to replace all these three packages.
Using ftp:://planetmirror.com, 5.2.1-4 appears to be the most recent
version of coreutils and it looks like I already have it installed (also
confirmed by the attached cygcheck.out). The three previous mirrors on
the list also indicate 5.2.1-4 is current. Is there a newer release?
Do I need to find a better mirror?
I don't saw it in your cygcheck?
From your first posting with this subject:
[...]
clear 1.0-1
cron 3.0.1-13
[...]
Latest posting includes now:
[...]
clear 1.0-1
coreutils 5.2.1-4
cron 3.0.1-15
[...]
Reinstalling coreutils 5.2.1-4 anyway does not cure the problem:
Ok.
dpchrist@p42800e:~$ grep dump .bashrc
alias dump='od -Ad -tc'
dpchrist@p42800e:~$ dump textfile.txt
0000000 T h i s i s a t e x t f
0000016 i l e c r e a t e d w i t h
0000032 N o t e p a d . \r \n I t h a
0000048 s D O S ( C R L F ) l i n
0000064 e e n d i n g s . \r \n
0000076
dpchrist@p42800e:~$ expand textfile.txt > textfile.out
dpchrist@p42800e:~$ dump textfile.out
0000000 T h i s i s a t e x t f
0000016 i l e c r e a t e d w i t h
0000032 N o t e p a d . \n I t h a s
0000048 D O S ( C R L F ) l i n e
0000064 e n d i n g s . \n
0000074
Confirmed. I see the same behaviour. So expand defaults to write
output in binmode. Is this the expected behaviour, Corinna?
Gerrit
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