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Re: binary mode from non-Cygwin shells?
- To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Subject: Re: binary mode from non-Cygwin shells?
- From: Antony Courtney <antony at apocalypse dot org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:06:47 -0500
- CC: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>, cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <4.3.1.2.20001129114907.021c87f8@pop.ma.ultranet.com>
"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
>
> At 11:44 AM 11/29/2000, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > > Nope. If I leave CYGWIN unset, and run the Cygwin echo.exe explicitly:
> > >
> > > d:\users\antony>c:\cygwin\bin\echo.exe hello |od -c
> > > 0000000000 h e l l o \r \n
> > > 0000000007
> > >
> >
> >Ok, what happens if you `set CYGWIN=binmode' before you execute this? Yea, I
> >could test it but I don't have access to *your* environment.
>
> It works. I tested it with 1.1.6. This seems to indicate the default
> when CYGWIN isn't set has slipped to "nobinmode"...
Unfortunately, it's less consistent than that. It seems that the default
for pipes in Cygwin shells is "binmode", but for non-Cygwin shells is
"nobinmode".
-antony
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Antony Courtney
Grad. Student, Dept. of Computer Science, Yale University
antony@apocalypse.org http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/antony
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