Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/08/21/03:20:33
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Orlando Andico wrote:
> I'm not certain exactly what this means. However, I did notice that the
> Gnu-Win32 tools do NOT like DOS-style text files. I moved my /etc/profile
> from my Linux box and bash parsed it OK. When I deleted some lines with
> Notepad, bash couldn't read it anymore.
That is exactly the kind of problems I was talking about. I'm
guessing here that what you describe is the other face of that coin.
From what I understand, Cygnus solved the problems of handling binary
files by letting users ``mount'' NT drives with a binary option.
That is OK for binary files, but makes trouble with DOS-style text
files (which are also the native format for NT text files) in programs
that expect lines to end with a single linefeed character.
There just ain't no easy way to make Microsoft platforms look Unixy
enough to run Unix-born programs unaltered. Been there, done that...
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