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Re: CR/LF translation


--- DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com> wrote:
> 
> A text file created by Notepad will always have the CR at the end of
> the line.  This is the "normal" DOS text format.
> 
> Use "cat -v" to actually *see* the CRs as printable characters.  "od
> -c foo" will also show you exactly which characters are in your file
> (`foo' in the example).
> 
> MSVC will *always* treat a file as DOS text unless specified otherwise
> (so it eats CRs).  I'm not sure how to change stdin to binary with
> MSVC.  With Cygwin, you should be able to do setmode(0,O_BINARY).
> 

FWIR, that is the way you do it with MSVC.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

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