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Re: DD converts LF -> CR / LF
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: Paul Eggert <eggert at CS dot UCLA dot EDU>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com, s dot schuberth at tu-bs dot de, bug-coreutils at gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 09:14:17 -0600
- Subject: Re: DD converts LF -> CR / LF
- References: <427B1A65.5060106@tu-bs.de> <427B258F.90516ACA@dessent.net> <427B70CB.7040101@byu.net> <87oebo1bfa.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu>
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According to Paul Eggert on 5/6/2005 12:01 PM:
> That looks pretty complicated. How about if we just rely on "open"
> and "fcntl" to do the work? If they don't work, they should.
>
> I installed this into coreutils:
>
> 2005-05-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
>
> * NEWS: dd has new iflag= and oflag= flags "binary" and "text".
> * doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document it.
> * src/dd.c (flags, usage): Support it.
That's okay for a start, but it now defaults to the underlying mount mode
when the user does not specify binary or text. In my opinion, dd should
default to binary when neither text nor binary is specified (of course,
that makes iflag=binary pretty much a no-op).
- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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