On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:47:07PM -0600, Matthew Smith wrote:
> Hi:
>
> This question is addressed specifically to Corinna. I would like to
> maintain zsh for the cygwin project, and was wondering what kind of
> text/binary issues I'll have to deal with. I downloaded the source for tcsh
> (I thought perhaps tcsh would be a better 'case study' - I'd wager it hasn't
> been as mutated as bash). I didn't see any readme/patches in regards to
> cygwin though. Can you send me your cygwin patches for tcsh? Thanks very
> much for your time.
If you have downloaded the tcsh sources from cygwin/contrib/tcsh,
you have the changes incorporated. There's no hint to Cygwin itself
but you will find many places with sth. like
#ifdef O_TEXT
setmode (fd, O_TEXT);
#endif
or the same for O_BINARY.
Roughly spoken the bin/textmode patch is doing usually the same
in all shells:
O_TEXT mode for:
- stdin
- script files
- here scripts
- backquote commands
- the `read' command
O_BINARY mode for:
- pipes
Leave it as it is for:
- stdout, stderr and their redirection
(no demand for completeness)
Hope, that helps,
Corinna
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