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Re: cat and binary files
- To: "Tim Iverson" <iverson at cisco dot com>
- Subject: Re: cat and binary files
- From: "Mikey" <jeffdb at netzone dot com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 16:17:09 -0700
- Cc: "cygnus" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
Rebuilding would only fail miserably, IF you didn't reinstall your headers,
and source, after remounting with -b, UNIX, which gnu-win32 is supposed to
be an emulation of, dosen't recognize CR as a necessary line delimiter, nor
does it recognize in line EOF characters like ^Z.
So if you want the tools to act like they do under unix, you should
probably provide an environment as close to unix's as possible.
> BTW, I wouldn't recommend using binary mode. I tried that briefly and
> found that rebuilding will fail rather miserably.
>
writes:
> | >cat seems to stop before the end of input - I assume at an end of file
> | >character. cat --help doesn't offer a binary flag. How can I cat
> |
> | Use the 'mount' command with the '-b' option to make sure that the
> ...
> | can be set to 1 to turn on the behavior where all files are treated as
> | binary (recommended).
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