Text file created from the keyboard is DOS termninated

[Gareth Pearce]

> > Your are using textmode mounts.  Worx fine with binmode:
>
>Thanks for trying this out. I'm not using textmode mounts; and it doesn't
>seem to be working fine with binmode. Contrast the two methods of textfile
>creation in the following snippet:
>
>============
>  ~> mount
>c:\Cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
>c:\Cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
>c:\Cygwin on / type system (binmode)
>c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
>
>~> cat > file1 << X
> > line1
> > line2
> > X
>~> od -tx1 file1
>0000000 6c 69 6e 65 31 0a 6c 69 6e 65 32 0a
>0000014
>
>~> cat > file2
>line1
>line2
>~> od -tx1 file2
>0000000 6c 69 6e 65 31 0d 0a 6c 69 6e 65 32 0d 0a
>0000016
>~>
>============
>
>So I can get what I require (Unix terminators) by appending <<X to the cat
>line; but I'd still like to know the reason for the intrusive 0d under the
>other method, and whether it is a "bug" in the sense that it really
>shouldn't be happening at all (which is what I feel about it).
>

Do you have CYGWIN variable set to contain binmode? - in one method your 
doing input using pipes without file reference and in the other (i think ;P) 
you are referencing a file (effectively at least).  Without a file reference 
- cygwin doesnt know binmode or textmode (i think) - so what it does depends 
on the CYGWIN variable (and whatever the default is) ...

did i say "i think" enough times :)

Gareth

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