On Thursday 20 December 2007 11:36:08 Matt Wozniski wrote: > On Dec 19, 2007 7:09 PM, Daniel Noll wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 December 2007 08:18:37 Dave Korn wrote: > > > > Does Cygwin uses EOF of Windows? > > > > > > No, Cygwin uses Ctrl-D for EOF like all POSIX. > > > > No, Cygwin uses whatever the user tells it to use during the install. > > No, you're confusing EOF with EOL. Line endings can be either Ctrl-M > Ctrl-J or just Ctrl-J, depending upon your installation choice, but > end of file is always Ctrl-D, like all of POSIX.
Ah, you're right. I read it as EOL for some reason. But actually the Ctrl-D thing seems to be per-application. I've noticed that under Cygwin, if I run an MS-DOS application it still expects the DOS-style EOF terminator. Likewise if I run something like "cat" under cmd.exe, Ctrl-D works. Daniel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/