>>>2005-05-06 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> * 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).
I agree, DD should default to binary in any case. Well, I'll look foreward to the Cywin release of coreutils-5.3.0-6 to see which patch will make it ;-) -- Sebastian Schuberth -- 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/
