GCC program always opening files in text mode

Fri Mar 22 06:54:00 GMT 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Isaac.Pacht@smed.com [mailto:Isaac.Pacht@smed.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 1:45 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: GCC program always opening files in text mode
>>> I'm trying to open a file on windows in "text" mode (i.e., 
> translate LF to CR/LF on output). But no matter how I open 
> the file (fopen, ofstream,
> std::ofstream) it outputs only LF's (unless, of course, I 
> output a "\r\n" pair explicitly). This is even though I am 
> not specifying binary mode. From the documentation I thought 
> these files should be opened in text mode by default. The 
> references I found to things like mount settings and 
> CYGWIN=nobinmode seem to apply only to getting standard 
> utilities to use text mode. What am I doing wrong?

The default mode is defined by the machine's install of cygwin. So,
always sepcify t or b in your mode, or O_TEXT or O_BINARY for open()
calls.
Rob
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