The DOS CR/LF thing?
Gill Watt
gwatt@quickturn.com
Tue Jun 24 06:46:00 GMT 1997
>From the GNU win32 FAQ:
> How is the DOS/Unix CR/LF thing handled?
> By default, tools that deal with binaries (e.g. objdump) operate in
> unix binary mode and tools that deal with text files (e.g. bash)
> operate in text mode.
> You can enable the DOS CR/LF end of line in a text file mode by setting
> fmode_binary setting in the registry to 0. I've tried to keep the file
> types 'natural'. By default a file is opened in text mode. This can be
> changed by adding O_BINARY to the second argument of an open call, or
> "b" to second argument of an fopen call.
> lseek now only works in binary mode.
Can someone please provide with more information about "setting fmode_binary
in the registry to 0"? I've looked in a lot of places and haven't found
a reference to it anywhere except in the FAQ.
Thank you very much for your help.
-Gill
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