"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
>
> At 11:54 AM 1/12/2001, Joey Mukherjee wrote:
> >I have a program which works perfectly when I tell it to read from a file at
> >/cygdrive/f/ . However, when I set the directory to F:/, the program no
> >longer works.
> >
> >The program is a simple dumper for one of our data files and it takes the
> >name of the data file on the command line. Now, when debugging everything
> >looks fine. The open succeeds, but the read starts reading garbage after
> >the first read.
> >
> >This seemed really odd to me since I would figure the open would take care
> >of any filename conversions.
> >
> >Thanks for any insight on what my problem might be...
> >
> >Joey
>
> The output of cygcheck -s -r -v and a test case showing the problem would be
> helpful.
>
Not for this Larry.
FAQ ALERT!!
If you access a file via it's drive letter name, it will open it in text
mode by default. Chris, will adding binmode to CYGWIN help in this
case?
Cheers,
Earnie.
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