Erroneous line endings (cat,gawk,text mount)

Peter S Tillier peter.tillier@btinternet.com
Thu Apr 24 13:02:00 GMT 2003


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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
>

Thanks ...

Peter S Tillier
"Who needs perl when you can write dc, sokoban,
arkanoid and an unlambda interpreter in sed?"



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