\r\n, DJGPP and gnu-win (Was: Re[2]: tar, zip, gzip troubles
john_r_velman@mail.hac.com
john_r_velman@mail.hac.com
Thu Oct 15 06:06:00 GMT 1998
I used the DJGPP environment under dos for years without ever having
to worry about this problem. In addition to all the ports working as
promised, I was able to successfully do some ports myself (the most
exotic being scm). The applications I used with no problems included
bash, emacs, vim, less, genscript, TeX, autoconfig, configure, make,
various shell scripts, perl, my own perl scripts, and on and on. I
simply never worried about the \r\n issue. I did see it discussed
occaisionally on the DJGPP newsgroup. My setup was a very standard
dos 6.something, windows3.something (both plain and for work groups at
various times).
On NT with gnu-win, I've finally made things work by setting my entire
cygnus tree to text = binary in the mount table. I'll admit that I
now have few problems, but I really should be able to run with no
problems without messing with the registry.
Can someone explain why there are few if any problems with the way
DJGPP handles this, and why there is a more or less continuous stream
of problems with this in gnu-win?
Well, I hope this doesn't sound like a major complaint. I give hearty
thanks to all the people who have done so much to provide the cyg-win and
gnu-win environment, and realize that this is still early in its
evlolution.
John Velman
jrvelman@mail.hac.com
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Subject: RE: tar, zip, gzip troubles
Author: Hoenicka@pbmail.me.kp.dlr.de at mime
Date: 10/13/98 7:19 AM
>>This smacks of the old binary/text problem. It doesn't sound like you
have set your mounts (mount -b) or CYGWIN32 (binmode) variable to binary
mode so I suggest you look there first.<<
Oh yes, this cured the problem (although I had to strip the \r's from my
.bashrc to restart bash successfully). However, as Earnie Boyd pointed out,
this seems to be more a workaround than a fix and I'll try to modify the
zip/unzip sources to fix the problem (may take years, though).
Thanks a lot
Markus
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Dr. Markus Hoenicka
DLR Inst. Aerospace Medicine
D-51170 Cologne, Germany
Hoenicka@pbmail.me.kp.dlr.de
Phone: ++49-2203-601-3101
Fax: ++49-2203-61159
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