Running dovecot under Cygwin

[Daniel Noll]

On Thursday 20 December 2007 11:36:08 Matt Wozniski wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2007 7:09 PM, Daniel Noll wrote:
> > On Wednesday 19 December 2007 08:18:37 Dave Korn wrote:
> > > > Does Cygwin uses EOF of Windows?
> > >
> > >   No, Cygwin uses Ctrl-D for EOF like all POSIX.
> >
> > No, Cygwin uses whatever the user tells it to use during the install.
>
> No, you're confusing EOF with EOL.  Line endings can be either Ctrl-M
> Ctrl-J or just Ctrl-J, depending upon your installation choice, but
> end of file is always Ctrl-D, like all of POSIX.

Ah, you're right.  I read it as EOL for some reason.

But actually the Ctrl-D thing seems to be per-application.  I've noticed that 
under Cygwin, if I run an MS-DOS application it still expects the DOS-style 
EOF terminator.  Likewise if I run something like "cat" under cmd.exe, Ctrl-D 
works.

Daniel

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