Re: bug in cat 5.3.0 (cygwin) on XP SP2

[Eric Blake]

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According to Tristan Savatier on 5/18/2005 4:39 PM:
> when 'cat' is passed several text files as parameters, it will add the
> invisible control character '^M' at the end of each lines of each file
> except the first file.

Cygwin line-ending problems should probably first be discussed on
cygwin<at>cygwin<dot>com.  Furthermore, it works just fine for me (I don't
think there is a bug, either in the cygwin distribution or upstream in
this list), it is probably a question of whether your files live on a text
mount, and whether they already had ^M's to begin with.  emacs has the
nice habit of suppressing ^M if EVERY line of the file has it (DOS mode),
but when only some lines have it (those lines from file2 and file3, but
not the lines from file1), you are in mixed mode and emacs reversts to
unix display.  Also, commands such as d2u are your friend when working
with mixed line ending machines.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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