Re: bug in cat 5.3.0 (cygwin) on XP SP2

[email protected] (James Youngman) Thu, 19 May 2005 09:25:05 +0100

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On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 04:05:54PM -0700, Tristan Savatier wrote:
> apparently this bug is triggered as soon as one of the text files contains 
> a spurious ^M character at its end, after the last \n.  emacs does not show 
> the ^M in this case, but it seems to change the behavior of cat on windows.
> 
> this is strange and i think it's a bug...

Possibly, but I'd suspect that it is a bug in cygwin rather than
coreutils.

James.