Should PERLIO=no_crlf be the default on Cygwin?

Sat May 31 00:22:00 GMT 2003

On 2003年5月30日, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Hallo Max,

> >>> Since Cygwin runs on Windows and Windows is a DOS system the PERLIO
> >>> layer crlf is default.

> > Is there any way to tell perlio "just let the system (i.e.
> > cygwin) handle things"? That would be a nice default.

> I need to patch the sources to do this, but it is no major problem,
> I'm already testing with the patched version and it seems to be the
> best solution to make no_crlf the default for Cygwin, it is also no
> problem then to pull it in everytime it is needed with PERLIO=crlf.

It would be good to be able to use the 'open' pragma to do this,
rather than an environmental variable. 
 use open IN => ":crlf", OUT => ":bytes";
But it didn't seem to work.
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