two text/binary oddities (Users Guide Alert)

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Thu Feb 19 23:23:00 GMT 2004


On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:37:12PM +0000, Robert R Schneck wrote:
>Short form:
>1) "cat > foo" creates foo with DOS line endings... no matter what.
>2) A control-Z in a file doesn't act as end-of-file in text mode, 
>despite what the Cygwin User's Guide says.

Joshua, could you remove anything which indicates that CTRL-Z is
equivalent to an EOF from the user's guide?

cgf

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