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Re: cat and binary files
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: cat and binary files
- From: kunglao at prairienet dot org
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 07:35:13 +0000
- References: <9704091349.AA39368@marc.watson.ibm.com>
> I tried doing binary mounts with the following results.
>
> 1. cat now produces a file larger than the sum of the input file
> sizes.
>
> 2. bash gets confused reading .bashrc
>
> 3. I don't know how to get binary while using explicit path notation.
>
> So I'll go back to text mode mounts for now, and if necessary write a
> cat that works.
It took some work to switch to an all binary-mounted system. What'll
solve most problems is getting the dos2unix package. I know .bashrc
needs to be converted to just have lf's, instead of the cr/lf's. I
have that, and the groff/man commands on my ftp site,
ftp://ftp.ice.net/pub/home/python
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