0x1a bug - its not just awk

Tue Nov 30 23:39:00 GMT 1999

On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 08:35:17PM +0000, Gareth Williams wrote:
>I just downloaded B20.1 and compiled a few C++ programs under NT4.
>Those that write data work fine. Those that read fail on the byte
>0x1a.
>>I have seen the reports that awk can not read the byte 0x1a.

If you've seen the reports, you should be aware that this is not a bug
but a feature. This character is considered to be an EOF character by
both cygwin and MSVC.
The solution is to use binary mounts, i.e., mount the directory using
the -b option:
mount -b c:\somedir /somedir
That will cause files in that directory to be interpreted as normal UNIX
streams of bytes.
cgf
--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com