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Re: Need help. Latest snapshot may be next cygwin net release.
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- Subject: Re: Need help. Latest snapshot may be next cygwin net release.
- From: Rick Rankin <rick_rankin at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 17:52:55 -0700 (PDT)
So far, this snapshot has cleaned up the issues I was seeing.
Many thanks!
Rick
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--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
> I would appreciate it if any adventurous souls would try out the
> latest cygwin snapshot by downloading this:
>
> ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/snapshots/cygwin1-20000524.dll.gz
>
> This file should be copied to your /bin directory. There should also
> be a cygwin1.dll in this directory. If there isn't, you're in the wrong
> directory.
>
> Once it's downloaded please:
>
> 1) Terminate all running cygwin applications
>
> 2) In the command shell, cd to the MS-DOS equivalent of your /bin
> directory, e.g.,
> d:
> cd cygwin\bin
>
> 3) gzip -d cygwin1-20000524.dll.gz
>
> 4) copy cygwin1.dll cygwin1.dll.safe
>
> 5) copy cygwin1-20000524.dll cygwin1.dll
>
> 6) Check any failing applications for correct operation.
>
> This snapshot should fix all of the "\r\n" line ending problems that
> were in cygwin-1.1.1. It should also fix problems with rxvt on Windows
> 95.
>
> Just to be clear, fixing "\r\n" line endings means that if you are in a
> directory that has been mounted using the "-t" option then makefiles
> should work as they used to in cygwin B20 and cygwin 1.1.0. This DLL
> fixes problems with text mode reads.
>
> This DLL does not change anything about the way that the setup.exe
> program previously mounted your root directory. setup.exe mounts the
> root directory as "binary". If this is not acceptable you still have
> to mount any directory containing files with MS-DOS style line endings
> with the "-t" option.
>
> So, if you have a directory called d:\src and it has all of your
> sources in it, and they all have the carriage-return/line-feed endings
> you have to:
>
> mount -t -f d:\src /src
>
> This will cause files in d:\src and any subdirectories of d:\src to be
> interpreted in text mode.
>
> If you do try out this DLL, I would appreciate hearing success or failure
> reports here in the cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com mailing list. Do not
> send them to me personally.
>
> If everything seems to be working well, I'll release a new version of
> the DLL over the weekend.
>
> Christopher Faylor
> Cygwin Engineering Manager (and developer)
> Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company
>
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