Erroneous line endings (cat,gawk,text mount)

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Apr 23 13:59:00 GMT 2003


On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 10:56:17PM +0100, Peter S Tillier wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:24:26AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >> FWIW, I've reproduced this on Win2k with CYGWIN=nobinmode on a text
> >> mount:
> >
> > Yes, gawk is linked against automode.o and always reads in textmode
> > and writes in binmode.
> >
> > Corinna
> 
> Thanks for this Corinna.  Does it mean that the gawk BINMODE variable
> is effectively ignored?

It's not ignored but it won't give you textmode output.

Corinna

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