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<para>Unfortunately, UNIX and Win32 use different end-of-line terminators in
text files. Consequently, carriage-return newlines have to be translated on
-the fly by Cygwin into a single newline when reading in text mode. The
-control-z character is interpreted as a valid end-of-file character for a
-similar reason.</para>
+the fly by Cygwin into a single newline when reading in text mode.</para>
<para>This solution addresses the compatibility requirement at the expense of
violating the POSIX standard that states that text and binary mode will be