Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > I took the textfile from the attachment which has actually two \r\n > at the end which are 78 bytes at all:
Thanks for your suggestion. I believe my copy of textfile.txt has one
CRLF pair at the end, and the length is 76 bytes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ wc textfile.txt
2 14 76 textfile.txt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ wc textfile.out
2 14 74 textfile.out
Also:
C:\cygwin\home\dpchrist>dir textfile.txt
Volume in drive C is P42800E
Volume Serial Number is 80A2-A98F
Directory of C:\cygwin\home\dpchrist
01/02/2005 12:00 PM 76 textfile.txt
1 File(s) 76 bytes
0 Dir(s) 66,820,841,472 bytes free
C:\cygwin\home\dpchrist>type textfile.txt
This is a text file created with Notepad.
It has DOS (CRLF) line endings.
C:\cygwin\home\dpchrist>
> This is on a textmode mount and I see the same on a binmode mount.
I do not understand the subtleties of Cygwin textmode mounts and binmode
mounts. I do not recall taking any actions to affect this parameter --
my habit is to simply download Cygwin setup.exe, download packages to
the local disk, and install packages from the local disk. When I
suspect my Cygwin installation is corrupt, I rename C:\cygwin, do a
fresh download/ download/ install cycle, and move over my data. (Maybe
I need to do this again?)
> ... please install coreutils to replace all these three packages.
Using ftp:://planetmirror.com, 5.2.1-4 appears to be the most recent
version of coreutils and it looks like I already have it installed (also
confirmed by the attached cygcheck.out). The three previous mirrors on
the list also indicate 5.2.1-4 is current. Is there a newer release?
Do I need to find a better mirror?
Reinstalling coreutils 5.2.1-4 anyway does not cure the problem:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep dump .bashrc
alias dump='od -Ad -tc'
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dump textfile.txt
0000000 T h i s i s a t e x t f
0000016 i l e c r e a t e d w i t h
0000032 N o t e p a d . \r \n I t h a
0000048 s D O S ( C R L F ) l i n
0000064 e e n d i n g s . \r \n
0000076
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ expand textfile.txt > textfile.out
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dump textfile.out
0000000 T h i s i s a t e x t f
0000016 i l e c r e a t e d w i t h
0000032 N o t e p a d . \n I t h a s
0000048 D O S ( C R L F ) l i n e
0000064 e n d i n g s . \n
0000074
David
This is a text file created with Notepad. It has DOS (CRLF) line endings.
cygcheck.out
Description: Binary data
textfile.out
Description: Binary data
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