problems with perl in text mode

[Neil Lunn]

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Neubauer, Frank [ mailto:F.Neubauer@elmeg.de ]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 12:02 AM
>To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
>Subject: problems with perl in text mode
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I have problems running the perl script rfc-index.pl from the 
>CPAN archive.
>
>What I have is a network drive mounted in text mode and a 
>rfc-index.txt file
>(MSDOS: \r\n).
>
>The script fails to spilt up the input file at empty lines
>
>--- cut here
>    $/="";
>
>    while (<>) 
>	...
>--- cut here
>
>The perl interpreter does not accept the MSDOS-style empty 
>line "\r\n\r\n"
>as a legal empty line.
>
>Furthermore, as the input is read in chunks rather than lines, 
>each chunk
>contains several line breaks. When they are written back using 
>"print", the
>line breaks are expanded into "\r\r\n", which indicates that 
>they haven't
>been compressed in the input side.
>
>Are there any environment variables which might have to been 
>set, is it a
>bug, or ...?
>
>Best regards,
>Frank Neubauer
>
>
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