On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:34:09AM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:21:55PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:37:12PM +0000, Robert R Schneck wrote: >> >Short form: >> >1) "cat > foo" creates foo with DOS line endings... no matter what. >> >2) A control-Z in a file doesn't act as end-of-file in text mode, >> >despite what the Cygwin User's Guide says. >> >> Joshua, could you remove anything which indicates that CTRL-Z is >> equivalent to an EOF from the user's guide? > >Done. The CYGWIN=tty section now reads, "Defaults to not set, in which case the >tty is opened in text mode. Note that this has been changed such that ^D works >as expected instead of ^Z, and is settable via stty." Does this sound accurate? > >I also removed the sentence "On reading in text mode, a CR followed by an NL is >deleted and a ^Z character signals the end of file" from the Using Text and >Binary Modes section, the whole of which seems somewhat outdated. Ah, >(volunteer) job security. > >I also changed all mentions of ^M to ^S, just to be mean. (Just kidding.)
This all sounds good. Thanks. I especially liked the ^M to ^S, but that's no surprise. cgf -- 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/
