Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/08/27/09:08:36
What about doing this:
tr -d '\015' < infile | html2rtf > outfile
I'm assuming that tr.exe is the GNU version the same as in Linux.
Ross
On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Wilfried Hennings wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm running cygwin32 B19.1 under win95a.
> I take part in developing the latex2rtf converter package
> (previously under the BSD license, now under the GNU license)
> which is being developed under Linux
> and also compiles and runs ok on a DEC Alpha under DEC OSF/1.
> I now want to get a win32 port of it.
> It successfully compiles with cygwin32, but if I feed it with
> a dos/win-formatted file (end-of-line = crlf)
> I get a "read error in line 2".
> If I save the input file in Unix mode (end-of-line = lf),
> it is successfully read.
> Input is via stdin, call is "latex2rtf <infile >outfile"
>
> YES, I have read the mailing list archive AND also the FAQ.
>
> NO, I don't want to renew the discussion whether
> it makes sense to distinguish between text mode and binary.
>
> I JUST want to get it working.
>
> The FAQ sais as follows:
> >How is the DOS/Unix CR/LF thing handled?
> >
> >By default, tools that deal with binaries (e.g. objdump)
> >operate in unix binary mode and tools that
> >deal with text files (e.g. bash) operate in text mode.
> >
> >You can enable the DOS CR/LF end of line in a text file mode
> >by setting fmode_binary setting in the registry to 0.
>
> I did not find this key. I instead found (among others):
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\CYGWIN.DLL setup\
> b15.0\mounts\04]
> "native"="C:"
> "unix"="/"
> "fbinary"=dword:00000000
> "fsilent"=dword:00000000
>
> Now IS this the required key (obviously it IS set to 0) or not?
>
> >I've tried to keep the file types 'natural'.
> >By default a file is opened in text mode.
> >This can be changed by adding O_BINARY
> >to the second argument of an open call,
> >or "b" to second argument of an fopen call.
> >You can also call setmode (fd, O_BINARY).
>
> The fopens ARE without the "b" switch.
>
> What is wrong?
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Dipl.-Ing. Wilfried Hennings c./o.
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