> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Mike Spertus
> Sent: 30 March 2004 20:30
> > On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Mike Spertus wrote:
> >
> >> I have installed Cygwin with DOS linebreaks (i.e., disks
> mounted in
> >> textmode). However, Cygwin perl doesn't seem to understand this as
> >> shown below. How do I tell Cygwin perl to respect textmode?:
> >>
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> >> $ od -t x1 foo.txt
> >> 0000000 66 6f 6f 62 61 72 0d 0a 66 6f 6f 62 61 7a 0d 0a
> 0000020 66 6f
> >> 6f 62 61 74 0d 0a 0d 0a
> >> 0000032
> >>
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> >> $ cat ~/foo.txt | perl -e 'while (<>) {print;}' >bar.txt
> >>
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> >> $ od -t x1 bar.txt
> >> 0000000 66 6f 6f 62 61 72 0d 0d 0a 66 6f 6f 62 61 7a 0d
> 0000020 0d 0a
> >> 66 6f 6f 62 61 74 0d 0d 0a 0d 0d 0a
> >> 0000036
ISTM to have entirely correctly converted LF to CRLF, which is what
textmode means AFAIUI. What were you hoping for?
cheers,
DaveK
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