Gerrit P. Haase wrote:I took the textfile from the attachment which has actually two \r\n at the end which are 78 bytes at all:Thanks for your suggestion. I believe my copy of textfile.txt has one CRLF pair at the end, and the length is 76 bytes:
Maybe an issue with your or my mailer?
I do not understand the subtleties of Cygwin textmode mounts and binmode mounts. I do not recall taking any actions to affect this parameter -- my habit is to simply download Cygwin setup.exe, download packages to the local disk, and install packages from the local disk. When I suspect my Cygwin installation is corrupt, I rename C:\cygwin, do a fresh download/ download/ install cycle, and move over my data. (Maybe I need to do this again?)
Default setting is 'binmode' at the third setup.exe panel where you define the 'Default Text File Type' -> 'Unix' *or* 'DOS'
... please install coreutils to replace all these three packages.Using ftp:://planetmirror.com, 5.2.1-4 appears to be the most recent version of coreutils and it looks like I already have it installed (also confirmed by the attached cygcheck.out). The three previous mirrors on the list also indicate 5.2.1-4 is current. Is there a newer release? Do I need to find a better mirror?
I don't saw it in your cygcheck?
From your first posting with this subject: [...] clear 1.0-1 cron 3.0.1-13 [...]
Latest posting includes now: [...] clear 1.0-1 coreutils 5.2.1-4 cron 3.0.1-15 [...]
Reinstalling coreutils 5.2.1-4 anyway does not cure the problem:
Ok.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep dump .bashrc alias dump='od -Ad -tc' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dump textfile.txt 0000000 T h i s i s a t e x t f 0000016 i l e c r e a t e d w i t h 0000032 N o t e p a d . \r \n I t h a 0000048 s D O S ( C R L F ) l i n 0000064 e e n d i n g s . \r \n 0000076 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ expand textfile.txt > textfile.out [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dump textfile.out 0000000 T h i s i s a t e x t f 0000016 i l e c r e a t e d w i t h 0000032 N o t e p a d . \n I t h a s 0000048 D O S ( C R L F ) l i n e 0000064 e n d i n g s . \n 0000074
Confirmed. I see the same behaviour. So expand defaults to write output in binmode. Is this the expected behaviour, Corinna?
Gerrit -- =^..^=
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