Way back in 1998, Earnie Boyd asked about the binary option for concatenating files in Cygwin. Now, almost 16 years later, I find that I need the binary option for cat, and I also find that cat.c still does NOT have the option! Here is a copy of that long-ago request and the response from Don Baarda. The work-around that Don suggested is not an option, since I need this in a bash script. (Cygwin automatically runs Bash as it’s shell.) When will the cat.c code be updated to function as it did in original Unix? ( cat [file1.. file2.. file n] >>output At the very least, a binary option should be added to the code. Regards, James A. Simmons, President & CEO The Personal Computer User Group, International james@pcug.us http://www.james-simmons.info http://www.pcug.us Re: best way to append binary files together? a.. To: "BAARDA, Don" b.. Subject: Re: best way to append binary files together? c.. From: Earnie Boyd d.. Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:07:21 -0800 (PST) e.. Cc: cygwin users f.. Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---"BAARDA, Don" wrote: > > > I know I can turn off text mode with either the CYGWIN environment variable > or by using mount options, but I'd be interested in what the best way of > doing this is. > IMHO fix the cat.c source. The workaround I would use would be to SET CYGWIN=binmode before starting bash. == - \\||// -------------------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o------------------- -- earnie_boyd@yahoo.com -- -- http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html -- ----------------------ooo0O--O0ooo---------------------- PS: Newbie's, you should visit my page. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com