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List:       cygwin
Subject:    Re: binary mode from non-Cygwin shells?
From:       Christopher Faylor <cgf () redhat ! com>
Date:       2000-11-29 20:22:52
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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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