To begin with, the fact that you emailed bug-textutils instead of bug-coreutils makes me suspect that your version of the tools are rather outdated, and you may be benefitted by upgrading to a newer version (the current version is 5.93).
> When I run head, windows 2003 server standard edition, in the command > box I see text on the screen. > When I use: "head a.txt |more" I get mostly ????? with one recognizable > character here and there. > The same when I do: "head a.txt > b.txt" and then I do: "type b.txt" I > see mostly ????????? This sort of question is more appropriately asked to the packager (cygwin, mingw32, etc) of the tools for Windows, rather than this list. In particular, cygwin.com maintains a very good port of the coreutils, and their mailing list is more likely to support Windows-related questions related to the interaction with the coreutils they provide. Furthermore, Windows `more' is incompatible with the POSIX `more', and Windows `type' is different than the POSIX shell builtin `type'. Although neither of those utilities are maintained at this list, your unexpected behavior may be the result of mixing programs that are trying to follow POSIX with programs that do not. -- Eric Blake _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
