binary mode from non-Cygwin shells?

Wed Nov 29 09:03:00 GMT 2000

"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
>> At 11:44 AM 11/29/2000, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > > Nope. If I leave CYGWIN unset, and run the Cygwin echo.exe explicitly:
> > >
> > > d:\users\antony>c:\cygwin\bin\echo.exe hello |od -c
> > > 0000000000 h e l l o \r \n
> > > 0000000007
> > >
> >
> >Ok, what happens if you `set CYGWIN=binmode' before you execute this? Yea, I
> >could test it but I don't have access to *your* environment.
>> It works. I tested it with 1.1.6. This seems to indicate the default
> when CYGWIN isn't set has slipped to "nobinmode"...

Unfortunately, it's less consistent than that. It seems that the default 
for pipes in Cygwin shells is "binmode", but for non-Cygwin shells is
"nobinmode".
	-antony
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Antony Courtney 
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