Subject: Re: BUG REPORT: patch
From: [email-masked] (David Fox)

9 Mar 1998 06:43:34 -0800
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Larry Hall <[email-masked]> writes:

> At 12:56 PM 3/8/98 -0500, David Fox wrote:

> >Geoffroy Montel <[email-masked]> 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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