RE: Text file created from the keyboard is DOS termninated

["Rolf Campbell" <rcampbell at tropicnetworks dot com>]

Your are using textmode mounts.  Worx fine with binmode:
/home/rcampbell> cat > a << A
> a
> a
> A
/home/rcampbell> od -tx1 < a
0000000 61 0a 61 0a
0000004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net [mailto:fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net] 
> Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 3:10 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Cc: fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net
> Subject: Text file created from the keyboard is DOS termninated
> 
> 
> I am set up for "Unix" rather than "DOS" and created a text 
> file directly from the keyboard by typing
> 
> $ cat > textfile
> this is line1 <press Enter>
> this is line2 <press Enter>
> <press Ctrl-D>
> $
> 
> It turns out that the two-line file textfile created by this 
> method, is DOS-terminated. I was kind of thinking it would 
> (should?) be Unix-terminated. I know there are 100 threads on 
> line termination, but in contexts more sophisticated than 
> this. Please can somebody tell me whether this is a bug; or 
> meant to happen (if so, why); or comment with assurance that 
> my "Unix" set-up must be faulty in some way (correctable?)
> 
> Thank you. By the way, if I try
> 
> $ cat > textfile << X
> > this is line1 <press Enter>
> > this is line2 <press Enter>
> > X <press Enter>
> $
> 
> (where > is the provided prompt) then the two-line file 
> textfile is Unix-terminated.
> 
> Fergus
> 
> 
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