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Re: 0x1a bug - its not just awk
- To: Gareth Williams <dgwilliams at dera dot gov dot uk>
- Subject: Re: 0x1a bug - its not just awk
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 17:51:27 -0500
- Cc: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, gareth at dgwsoft dot co dot uk
- References: <3.0.6.32.19991122203517.00924d50@146.80.9.11>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 08:35:17PM +0000, Gareth Williams wrote:
>I just downloaded B20.1 and compiled a few C++ programs under NT4.
>Those that write data work fine. Those that read fail on the byte
>0x1a.
>
>I have seen the reports that awk can not read the byte 0x1a.
If you've seen the reports, you should be aware that this is not a bug
but a feature. This character is considered to be an EOF character by
both cygwin and MSVC.
The solution is to use binary mounts, i.e., mount the directory using
the -b option:
mount -b c:\somedir /somedir
That will cause files in that directory to be interpreted as normal UNIX
streams of bytes.
cgf
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