Re: Text file created from the keyboard is DOS termninated

2002-12-08 Thread Gareth Pearce
> Your are using textmode mounts. Worx fine with binmode: Thanks for trying this out. I'm not using textmode mounts; and it doesn't seem to be working fine with binmode. Contrast the two methods of textfile creation in the following snippet: ~> mount c:\Cygwin\bin on /usr/bin

Re: Text file created from the keyboard is DOS termninated

2002-12-08 Thread fergus
> Your are using textmode mounts. Worx fine with binmode: Thanks for trying this out. I'm not using textmode mounts; and it doesn't seem to be working fine with binmode. Contrast the two methods of textfile creation in the following snippet: ~> mount c:\Cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type

RE: Text file created from the keyboard is DOS termninated

2002-12-07 Thread Rolf Campbell
cember 07, 2002 3:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Text file created from the keyboard is DOS termninated > > > I am set up for "Unix" rather than "DOS" and created a text > file directly from the keyboard by typing > &g

Text file created from the keyboard is DOS termninated

2002-12-07 Thread fergus
I am set up for "Unix" rather than "DOS" and created a text file directly from the keyboard by typing $ cat > textfile this is line1 this is line2 $ It turns out that the two-line file textfile created by this method, is DOS-terminated. I was kind of thinking it would (should?) be Unix-termina