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 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 shouldn't >need to worry about it.
It is not rare but, regardless, this email was the result of someone who was surprised by the fact that dd converted LF -> CRLF. Whether it is common or not, I don't think it makes sense to surprise people who use dd when it is trivial to make it work in a more UNIX-like fashion (i.e., do not convert LF -> CRLF). -- Christopher Faylor spammer? -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cygwin Co-Project Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] TimeSys, Inc. -- 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/
