DD converts LF -> CR / LF

[Eric Blake]

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According to Paul Eggert on 5/6/2005 12:01 PM:
> That looks pretty complicated.  How about if we just rely on "open"
> and "fcntl" to do the work?  If they don't work, they should.
> 
> I installed this into coreutils:
> 
> 2005-05-06  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> 
> 	* NEWS: dd has new iflag= and oflag= flags "binary" and "text".
> 	* doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document it.
> 	* src/dd.c (flags, usage): Support it.

That's okay for a start, but it now defaults to the underlying mount mode
when the user does not specify binary or text.  In my opinion, dd should
default to binary when neither text nor binary is specified (of course,
that makes iflag=binary pretty much a no-op).

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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