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RE: Proposal for new cygwin flag: notextmode masks away O_TEXT
- From: "Dan Vasaru" <dvasaru at broadpark dot no>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 17:55:01 +0200
- Subject: RE: Proposal for new cygwin flag: notextmode masks away O_TEXT
Quoting Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>:
>Works fine for me on a binmode or textmode mount, which is by
>design. sed should open its input in textmode and it's output
>in binary mode.
I understand that. Is there any flavour of unix that does provide CRLF
translation ?
I think not, and that's what I'm hinting at when talking about (bug-to-bug)
compatibility.
>I think you have the tools you need, so I do not want to complicate
>the binmode/textmode logic in cygwin with YA option.
I'll buy that. Just wish the option was there.
Dan
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