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RE: CRLF question (yeah, again :-p)


Great! Thank you!

Regards,

  Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Earnie Boyd
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 2:53 PM
> To: Dan Haynes
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: CRLF question (yeah, again :-p)
>
>
> Dan Haynes wrote:
>
> > Running into a small issue with CR LF expansion again and I can't quite
> > figure out if this is expected behaviour or not.
> >
> > We're using a clean install of Cygwin 1.7 on NT 4.0 SP6a, all mounts are
> > text mode, all mounts on NTFS volumes.
> >
> > In a makefile I do
> >
> >         cmd /c "dir /ad /b" | sort >foo
> >
> > ...and the lines end up with extra CR characters appended (CR
> CR LF at the
> > end of the lines)
> >
> > Changing the command line to:
> >
> >         cmd /c "dir /ad /b" >foo1
> >         sort foo1 >foo
> >
> > ...works fine.
> >
> > I verified that sort.exe is the Cygwin version and not the NT one.
> >
> > Is it to be expected that piping the output of a Win32 app to a
> Cygwin app
> > might/will result in end-of-line character confusion? Or should
> this work
> > and I need to look at sort to find out what's happening?
> >
>
> The default mode for pipes in cmd.exe is now textmode.  Add the `binmode'
> qualifier to your CYGWIN environment variable and restart all Cygwin
> processes to change the processing mode to binary mode for pipes.
>
> Cheers,
> Earnie.
>
>
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