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RE: "od" wrong line endings and byte count
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 17:58:47 -0600
- Subject: RE: "od" wrong line endings and byte count
> On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 05:27:45PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 12:34:03PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
> > >This means that when a cygwin program reads a file with
> CRLF endings
> > >it is translated to LF line endings that all unix tools
> expect. You
> > >want binary mounts if this is not what you desire. See
> the FAQ for
> > >more info...
> >
> > I think that this is a regression of "od", though. It
> probably should
> > use binmode by default.
>
> I would tend to agree, but how would you change this default
> if desired?
>
? By one of the two ways God intended when he gave Moses POSIX:
1. O_BINARY
2. "rb"
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
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