DD converts LF -> CR / LF
Sebastian Schuberth
s.schuberth@tu-bs.de
Sat May 7 18:26:00 GMT 2005
>>>2005-05-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
>>>
>>> * NEWS: dd has new iflag= and oflag= flags "binary" and "text".
>>> * doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document it.
>>> * src/dd.c (flags, usage): Support it.
>
> That's okay for a start, but it now defaults to the underlying mount mode
> when the user does not specify binary or text. In my opinion, dd should
> default to binary when neither text nor binary is specified (of course,
> that makes iflag=binary pretty much a no-op).
I agree, DD should default to binary in any case. Well, I'll look
foreward to the Cywin release of coreutils-5.3.0-6 to see which patch
will make it ;-)
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Sebastian Schuberth
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