return to the line

Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Sep 5 07:39:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:55:21AM -0700, Tim Prince wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick Hubers" <phubers@solve-i-t.com>
> To: <cygwin@sources.redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 4:43 AM
> Subject: RE: return to the line
> 
> 
> > Jorge Goncalvez wrote:
> >
> > > Hi , I made a port of a program from linux to Windows with
> cygwin .
> > > This program writes some logs informations in the
> > > cygwin_syslog.txt But instead
> > > of having a return to the line it haves a strange character.
> > >
> > > Why? I opened it with notepad but if I open it with vi these
> character
> > > disappear.
> >
> > Notepad (as do many Windows programs) expects a CR-LF (carriage
> return -
> > line feed) combination to indicate end-of-line, whereas
> Linux/Unix etc. only
> > use CR. Vi is, and any decent editor on Windows should be,
> capable of
> > interpreting both types of end-of-line. This is not Cygwin
> specific, btw, so
> > you might wanna follow up on a more appropriate list.
> >
> > _____________________
> > Patrick Hubers
> > phubers@solve-i-t.com
> >
> vi sees these differently in cygwin, according to whether the
> file is on a text or a binary mount, AFAIK.

No. vim always opens files in binmode and interprets it by itself.

Corinna

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