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Re: Using windows text mode without setup.exe
- From: David Dyck <david dot dyck at fluke dot com>
- To: mjumbe at seas dot upenn dot edu
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 12:36:33 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Using windows text mode without setup.exe
- References: <20080409145136.b3kibhnxhcwscws0@webmail.seas.upenn.edu>
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 at 11:51 -0700, mjumbe@... wrote:
.... The application needs read from and write to files in
text mode (i.e. using CRLF format). This works fine on my development
machine, because I can just use the Cygwin setup program to specify
the Windows text mode as default. However, when I package up my
distribution with the Cygwin dll and install it elsewhere, the program
writes UNIX linefeeds.
http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-textbinary.html
In the open() function call, binary mode can be specified with the flag
O_BINARY and text mode with O_TEXT. These symbols are defined in fcntl.h.
In the fopen() function call, binary mode can be specified by adding
a b to the mode string. Text mode is specified by adding a t to the
mode string.
The mode of a file can be changed by the call setmode(fd,mode) where fd
is a file descriptor (an integer) and mode is O_BINARY or O_TEXT. The
function returns O_BINARY or O_TEXT depending on the mode before the call,
and EOF on error.
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