Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/10/02/22:18:21
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:54:58PM -0400, lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com wrote:
>Whenever you're looking to find out where a file or utility is in
>Cygwin (assuming you don't have it local that you can just search),
>use http://cygwin.com/packages/. It will tell you the package that
>contains the file. In this case, these files come with the Cygwin
>package so if you've installed Cygwin via setup, you have the files
>in question.
>
>textmode.o, automode.o, and binmode.o do as you surmise. They just
>set the mode of unspecified file I/O. You can find lots of discussion
>of these files and their operation in the email list archives. Take a
>look there and/or at the source if you're interested in more details.
>But I have to agree with Chris on this. If your main goal is to just
>get a cpp that works the way Cygwin's does, your best bet is to just
>download the source via setup and use it. Since Chris is the maintainer
>for gcc, I don't think you'll get better advice on how to get like
>functionality.
FWIW, I don't *think* that gcc 2.95.3-? used automode, textmode, or
binmode. I believe that DJ may have patched them to open text files in
text mode.
cgf
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