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Re: <crlf> vs <lf> and use of diff


On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, CBFalconer wrote:

> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, CBFalconer wrote:
> >
> ... snip ...
> > >
> > > I also thought that I had read somewhere that the cygwin libraries
> > > generated <crlf> output lines, but it is obviously not so.
> >
> > mount the directory with DJPP makefiles in text mode.  Then the newly
> > produced files will have crlf line endings.
>
> I just created the directory and unzipped into there.  Showed up a
> couple of glitches in my published work :-).  How do we "mount in
> text mode"?

'man mount'.  If you want crlf sent through pipes, check out the binmode
setting in the CYGWIN environment variable (in the User Guide).

> BTW attacking this has shown up a couple of Cygwin glitches.  bash
> won't run a MSDOS .com file, even though it is in the path.
> Piping doesn't work to DOS utilities.  Also stdin redirection to
> DOS utilities doesn't work - maybe the same bug.  These utilities
> detect that stdin is NOT the console, and act accordingly.

I think the 'tty' setting in the CYGWIN environment variable may be
responsible for this, people will correct me if I'm wrong...  Details in
the User Guide.
	Igor
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