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Re: expand changing DOS line endings to Unix line endings


David Christensen wrote:
Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
I took the textfile from the attachment which has actually two \r\n
at the end which are 78 bytes at all:
Thanks for your suggestion.  I believe my copy of textfile.txt has one
CRLF pair at the end, and the length is 76 bytes:

Maybe an issue with your or my mailer?



I do not understand the subtleties of Cygwin textmode mounts and binmode
mounts.  I do not recall taking any actions to affect this parameter --
my habit is to simply download Cygwin setup.exe, download packages to
the local disk, and install packages from the local disk.  When I
suspect my Cygwin installation is corrupt, I rename C:\cygwin, do a
fresh download/ download/ install cycle, and move over my data.  (Maybe
I need to do this again?)

Default setting is 'binmode' at the third setup.exe panel where you define the 'Default Text File Type' -> 'Unix' *or* 'DOS'


... please install coreutils to replace all these three packages.
Using ftp:://planetmirror.com, 5.2.1-4 appears to be the most recent
version of coreutils and it looks like I already have it installed (also
confirmed by the attached cygcheck.out).  The three previous mirrors on
the list also indicate 5.2.1-4 is current.  Is there a newer release?
Do I need to find a better mirror?

I don't saw it in your cygcheck?


From your first posting with this subject:
[...]
clear                1.0-1
cron                 3.0.1-13
[...]

Latest posting includes now:
[...]
clear                1.0-1
coreutils            5.2.1-4
cron                 3.0.1-15
[...]


Reinstalling coreutils 5.2.1-4 anyway does not cure the problem:

Ok.



dpchrist@p42800e:~$ grep dump .bashrc
alias dump='od -Ad -tc'
dpchrist@p42800e:~$ dump textfile.txt
0000000   T   h   i   s       i   s       a       t   e   x   t       f
0000016   i   l   e       c   r   e   a   t   e   d       w   i   t   h
0000032       N   o   t   e   p   a   d   .  \r  \n   I   t       h   a
0000048   s       D   O   S       (   C   R   L   F   )       l   i   n
0000064   e       e   n   d   i   n   g   s   .  \r  \n
0000076
dpchrist@p42800e:~$ expand textfile.txt > textfile.out
dpchrist@p42800e:~$ dump textfile.out
0000000   T   h   i   s       i   s       a       t   e   x   t       f
0000016   i   l   e       c   r   e   a   t   e   d       w   i   t   h
0000032       N   o   t   e   p   a   d   .  \n   I   t       h   a   s
0000048       D   O   S       (   C   R   L   F   )       l   i   n   e
0000064       e   n   d   i   n   g   s   .  \n
0000074


Confirmed.  I see the same behaviour.  So expand defaults to write
output in binmode.  Is this the expected behaviour, Corinna?


Gerrit -- =^..^=

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