> This is, what I expect, after reading the Cygwin FAQ: > "When processing in text mode, [...] written to the file [...] > you in fact get "Hello\r\n". Upon reading this combination, > the \r is removed [...]". > Why is it in fact not removed when reading with cat?
The FAQ is outdated. Would you care to volunteer to help maintain it? Reading the NEWS for coreutils, cat was changed upstream in the last two years or so to always be binary-only, to more closely comply with POSIX rules that state that cat must operate on all file types, not just text files. If cat used default mode, it would corrupt true binary files that lived in text mounts. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer -- 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/
