Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/03/09/06:43:34
Larry Hall <lhall AT rfk DOT com> writes:
> At 12:56 PM 3/8/98 -0500, David Fox wrote:
> >Geoffroy Montel <g_montel AT yahoo DOT com> writes:
> >
> >> There's a slight bug in the patch command: the files processed by
> >> "patch" then have the DOS format.... a bit annoying isn't it?
> >
> >"sed" does the same thing.
>
> For those seeing this problem, are you sure you have your file
> systems mounted as binary? If not, you'll see this. I don't want
> this to degenerate into a holy war about how things should be but if
> mounts are not binary, you could conceivably categorize most of
> these tools as broken. But please, let's not run through the whole
> list here...
Ok, this seems to have done the trick, thanks. I was not aware of
the notion of mounting in the Cygwin32 system.
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NYU Media Research Lab fox AT cat DOT nyu DOT edu baL hcraeseR aideM UYN
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