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According to Sebastian Schuberth on 5/6/2005 1:19 AM:
dd if=test_unix.txt of=text.txt
create an exact copy of test_unix.txt?
If you are interested, try the coreutils-5.3.0-6 test release (in setup,
you have to specifically request the Exp radio
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According to Christopher Faylor on 5/9/2005 8:57 AM:
As one of the project leads, I am formally asking you to make dd default
to binary behavior.
With a request like that, you've got it! Is there any reason why
fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, O_TEXT) does
On May 12 07:25, Eric Blake wrote:
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According to Christopher Faylor on 5/9/2005 8:57 AM:
As one of the project leads, I am formally asking you to make dd default
to binary behavior.
With a request like that, you've got it! Is there any
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According to Christopher Faylor on 5/8/2005 5:03 PM:
Hmm, overriding the explicit advice of the system administrator? How
common is it for file systems to be mounted in text mode? Why would
anyone do such a thing? If it's sufficiently rare, then dd
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 06:52:29AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
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According to Christopher Faylor on 5/8/2005 5:03 PM:
Hmm, overriding the explicit advice of the system administrator? How
common is it for file systems to be mounted in text mode? Why would
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
it now defaults to the underlying mount mode when the user does not
specify binary or text. In my opinion, dd should default to binary
when neither text nor binary is specified
Hmm, overriding the explicit advice of the system administrator?
How common is
Paul Eggert wrote:
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
it now defaults to the underlying mount mode when the user does not
specify binary or text. In my opinion, dd should default to binary
when neither text nor binary is specified
Hmm, overriding the explicit advice of the system
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 08:02:30AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
it now defaults to the underlying mount mode when the user does not
specify binary or text. In my opinion, dd should default to binary
when neither text nor binary is specified
Hmm, overriding the
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According to Paul Eggert on 5/6/2005 12:01 PM:
That looks pretty complicated. How about if we just rely on open
and fcntl to do the work? If they don't work, they should.
I installed this into coreutils:
2005-05-06 Paul Eggert [EMAIL
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 09:14:17AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
According to Paul Eggert on 5/6/2005 12:01 PM:
That looks pretty complicated. How about if we just rely on open
and fcntl to do the work? If they don't work, they should.
I installed this into coreutils:
2005-05-06 Paul Eggert
2005-05-06 Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* NEWS: dd has new iflag= and oflag= flags binary and text.
* doc/coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Document it.
* src/dd.c (flags, usage): Support it.
That's okay for a start, but it now defaults to the underlying mount mode
when the
Hello,
my mounts are all text mode, i.e. the Default Text File
Type is DOS. Nevertheless, shouldn't
dd if=test_unix.txt of=text.txt
create an exact copy of test_unix.txt? It seems DD doesn't open the
file in binary mode (like even VIM does), because
if test_unix.txt contains LF line ends, text.txt
Sebastian Schuberth wrote:
my mounts are all text mode, i.e. the Default Text File
Type is DOS. Nevertheless, shouldn't
Yeah, that does seem a bit broken. You can solve that with something
like the following:
--- dd.c.orig 2005-05-06 01:03:01.12500 -0700
+++ dd.c2005-05-06
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According to Brian Dessent on 5/6/2005 2:06 AM:
Sebastian Schuberth wrote:
my mounts are all text mode, i.e. the Default Text File
Type is DOS. Nevertheless, shouldn't
dd if=test_unix.txt of=text.txt
create an exact copy of test_unix.txt? It
Eric Blake wrote:
Predefining O_BINARY as the default input_flags and output_flags is a
stopgap measure. While it is fine for other programs, such as od, to
Doesn't that overly complicate things? Seems to me that whenever you
use dd you are interested in copying fixed record length data. It
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 07:27:39AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
There is still the question on cygwin whether an unspecified
text/binary mode should always default to binary, or should default to
the underlying default for that particular mount.
I think that dd should always default to binary unless
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 06:52:15AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
Eric Blake wrote:
Predefining O_BINARY as the default input_flags and output_flags is a
stopgap measure. While it is fine for other programs, such as od, to
Doesn't that overly complicate things? Seems to me that whenever you
use
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