'sort' does not handle CRLF correctly

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:15:17AM -0400, Brad Barber wrote:
>At 03:27 PM Tuesday 4/10/2001, Matthew Smith wrote:
>>Are you using binary mounts?  You might also try adding 'binmode' to your
>>CYGWIN environment variable.  Do NOT set the CYGWIN var in your bash
>>environment, set it in your Windows environment if you go that route.
>
>Thanks for your help.  It helped me locate the problem.  
>
>All the disks are mounted as the default binmode, otherwise 'cp'
>doesn't work with binary files.

Huh?  Please don't spread misinformation.  Of course 'cp' works with
"binary files" regardless of the mount point.

If you've found a failing case, that is a serious bug that requires a fix.

cgf

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