indent.exe strangeness

Gerrit P. Haase gp@familiehaase.de
Sun Nov 11 08:26:00 GMT 2001


Hallo Christopher,

Am 2001-11-15 um 20:21 schriebst du:

> On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:19:12PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>>> What about a patch that would fopen() every file in binmode and write it
>>> back according to the mount?
>>
>>I think that textmode.o is the correct tool rather than a patch - read
>>every file in textmode (they are source after all :]) and write in
>>textmode.

> No.  That would end up putting CRLF on every file.  I doubt that people
> with binmode mounts would be pleased.

> automode.o should take any file and create a file with only LF line
> endings.  This will be correctly interpreted by just about every tool
> except older versions of notepad.exe.

But every file that is in textmode with CR/LF will be converted to binmode
lineendings then?

Ciao,

Gerrit P. Haase                            mailto:gp@familiehaase.de
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