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RE: GCC program always opening files in text mode
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: <Isaac dot Pacht at smed dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 01:53:12 +1100
- Subject: RE: GCC program always opening files in text mode
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Isaac.Pacht@smed.com [mailto:Isaac.Pacht@smed.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 1:45 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: GCC program always opening files in text mode
>
>
> I'm trying to open a file on windows in "text" mode (i.e.,
> translate LF to CR/LF on output). But no matter how I open
> the file (fopen, ofstream,
> std::ofstream) it outputs only LF's (unless, of course, I
> output a "\r\n" pair explicitly). This is even though I am
> not specifying binary mode. From the documentation I thought
> these files should be opened in text mode by default. The
> references I found to things like mount settings and
> CYGWIN=nobinmode seem to apply only to getting standard
> utilities to use text mode. What am I doing wrong?
The default mode is defined by the machine's install of cygwin. So,
always sepcify t or b in your mode, or O_TEXT or O_BINARY for open()
calls.
Rob
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