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printf "\n"|perl -pe '1;'|od -a #perl 5.8 converts to *DOS* text :-<


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IMHO the perl v5.6.0 that came w/1.3.20 worked correctly.
In the test case below perl 5.8.0 is converting UNIX text to 
DOS text - (this is breaking our old scripts).

Comments please.

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thanks/regards,
Tom
# run below to get my address:
perl -e 'print unpack("u", "\.\=\$\!T\<F\]D\;6\%N\+F\-O\;0H\`");' 

--v-v------------------C-U-T---H-E-R-E-------------------------v-v--
bash-2.05b$ uname -r
1.3.20(0.73/3/2)
bash-2.05b$ printf "\n"|perl -pe '1;'|od -a
0000000  nl
0000001
bash-2.05b$ perl -v|grep 'This is'
This is perl, v5.6.1 built for cygwin-multi
--v-v------------------C-U-T---H-E-R-E-------------------------v-v--
bash-2.05b$ uname -r
1.3.22(0.78/3/2)
bash-2.05b$ printf "\n"|perl -pe '1;'|od -a
0000000  cr  nl
0000002
bash-2.05b$ perl -v|grep 'This is'
This is perl, v5.8.0 built for cygwin-multi-64int

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