What is the trick to getting cat, head, and tail to work correctly with binary files under WinNT? I tried setting the CYGWIN environment variable to "binmode" as recommended by the documentation. This got things closer to working but it's still not right.
Example: given a binary file named foo of size 10000 bytes CYGWIN=tty head -c50 foo > foo.part1 # got 23 bytes from foo tail -c1000 foo > foo.part2 # got 648 bytes from foo cat foo.part1 foo.part2 > new_foo # is not the sum of the two input file sizes CYGWIN=binmode head -c50 foo > foo.part1 # got 58 bytes from foo tail -c1000 foo > foo.part2 # got 1046 bytes from foo cat foo.part1 foo.part2 > new_foo # is not the sum of the two input file sizes cat foo foo > foo2 # is not twice the size of foo Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Erik ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik Sobel [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
