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Re: "od" wrong line endings and byte count
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 20:37:07 -0500
- Subject: Re: "od" wrong line endings and byte count
- References: <20050102223613.GB608@efn.org> <20050102235926.2F8DB170893@samwise.efn.org> <20050103011640.GA444@efn.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 05:16:40PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 05:58:47PM -0600, "Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote:
>>>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"
>
>Umm, that's not what I think of as "by default". I call that
>"hardcoded". "Default" implies to me the possibility of changing
>without recompile/relink.
That is a very strange implication...
cgf
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