Subject: RE: Bash, history file, and Tcl
From: [email-masked] (Mikey)

19 Jan 1997 17:09:05 -0800
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     One way to eliminate most (possibly all) CR/LF problems
is to mount with the -b option, I don't know why this isn't the
default.
     Unfortunatly, after you do this you will have to reinstall from =
scratch, but once you do bash history works properly, (after deleting or =
converting the .bash_history file) ncurses compiles out of the box =
(dosen't quite work right because of some missing capabilities, but I'm =
working on it), same with most GNU tools that have a configure script.
     Try it, after the initial pain, it's a BIG win.

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From: 	Len Budney[SMTP:[email-masked]]
Sent: 	Friday, January 17, 1997 2:28 PM
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Subject: 	Re: Bash, history file, and Tcl

   Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 21:03:08 EST
   From: [email-masked]
   Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]

   Hi, you wrote:

   : Yes!  I noticed the same problem in trying to get Tcl to compile =
under
   : GNU-Win32; tcl would not read scripts named on the command line =
because
   : it checks the "size" element of the "fstat" structure and compares =
this
   : with the number of bytes read.

   What version?
   We use the win port from the Sun Tcl team and scripts without CRs =
developed
   under unix via NFS (or Samba). Under NT, you just have to be careful =
about
   your editor how it handles CRs, err, the lack of them!
   For example MS Write works, when forbidding conversion, but not =
Notepad.
   And Tcl7.5 and greater support various translations on channels...

Sorry, I didn't specify better.  There is another thread on this mailing
list about Tcl/Tk, and I didn't want to mush them together.  Lots of
folks are using windows ports of Tcl, but I want a native GNU version
because my actual goal is to compile Expect.  (For the interested, I
have nearly succeeded, and even managed to automate some FTP sessions.
Yet another thread?)

Compiling Tcl 7.5 and higher against GNU-Win32 has been impossible so
far (for me).  The reason is, that 7.5 and above compile on NT out of
the box, and I can't convince "configure" to give me a _UNIX_ build for
love or money.

Tcl 7.4 only comes in UNIX, and it compiles out of the box under =
GNU-Win32.
Sadly, the CRLF problem (and possibly others) have sharply restricted
its usefulness so far.

Does anyone else have better success to report?
Len.

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