If I execute this perl script de010597> cat x.pl #!/usr/bin/perl use strict;
open( HO, "<x.txt" ); while (<HO>) { print "$_"; } on a text mount with an input file that has CRLF line endings perl should treat this as a text file and strip the CR. Only if I use binmode HO should I see the CR. But it doesn't: de010597> ./x.pl | cat -A bla^M$ de010597> cat -A x.txt bla^M$ What am I missing here? de010597> pwd /d/jakarta-tomcat/awstats de010597> mount D:\PROGRA~1\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) D:\PROGRA~1\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) D:\PROGRA~1\cygwin on / type system (binmode) c: on /c type system (textmode,noumount) d: on /d type system (textmode,noumount) f: on /f type system (textmode,noumount) de010597> mount -m mount -f -s -b "D:/PROGRA~1/cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin" mount -f -s -b "D:/PROGRA~1/cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib" mount -f -s -b "D:/PROGRA~1/cygwin" "/" mount -s -t --change-cygdrive-prefix "/" de010597> uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.2 de010597 1.5.18(0.132/4/2) 2005-07-02 20:30 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin de010597> perl -v This is perl, v5.8.7 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int Michael -- 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/