-------- to review.. the problem (UNIX style lines converted to DOS): --v-v------------------C-U-T---H-E-R-E-------------------------v-v-- bash-2.05b$ printf "\r\n\n"|perl -pe '1;'|od -a 0000000 cr nl cr nl 0000004
work around: --v-v------------------C-U-T---H-E-R-E-------------------------v-v-- bash-2.05b$ printf "\r\n\n"|perl -pe ' BEGIN { binmode (\*STDIN, q{:raw}); binmode (\*STDOUT,q{:raw}); # would "binmode (STDOUT,q{:raw }); be as good? } 1;' | od -a 0000000 cr nl nl 0000003 bash-2.05b$ perl -v|grep 'This is';uname -r This is perl, v5.8.0 built for cygwin-multi-64int 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) <snipped> --^-^------------------C-U-T---H-E-R-E-------------------------^-^-- Comments please. -- thanks/regards, Tom # run below to get my address: perl -e 'print unpack("u", "\.\=\$\!T\<F\]D\;6\%N\+F\-O\;0H\`");' -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/