From: raf AT comdyn DOT com DOT au (raf)
Subject: Re: Cygnus b19 gcc and Mingw32
10 Mar 1998 08:14:07 -0800
Message-ID: <199803100850.TAA02907.cygnus.gnu-win32@mali.comdyn.com.au>
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

>From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com>
>Well, I'm interested in the prebuilt binaries.  Downloaded with 
>SaveLinkAs because Netscape Communicator opens the file and displays the 
>bytes.  After downloading "gzip -d cygwinb19.dll-gz" gives a "not valid 
>format" error.

if netscape thinks it should be loaded into a browser window (by default)
saving with 'SaveLinkAs' doesn't help because it places \n chars throughout
it. netscape has this strange assumption that "if i don't know what it is,
it must want to be a dos text file!".

try telling netscape that ".dll-gz" files are to be downloaded.
failing that, ask chris to ask his isp very nicely to use the
appropriate file name.

>>From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
>>Subject: Re: Cygnus b19 gcc and Mingw32
>>Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 13:46:28 GMT
>>To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
>>Reply-To: cgf AT bbc DOT com
>>
>>In article <023501bd4b21$4c817b40$fa173185 AT gbird0 DOT fu DOT is DOT saga-u DOT ac DOT jp>,
>>Colin Peters <colin AT fu DOT is DOT saga-u DOT ac DOT jp> wrote:
>>>On a new point. Are Mingw32 programs the only ones suffering from 
>bizarre
>>>problems with stdin, stdout and such under bash? I seem to remember
>>>something about non-Cygwin32 programs
>>>having output disappear, and it definitely happens to me.
>>
>>Here's a patch that I've submitted to Cygnus which should deal with
>>this problem.
>>
>>If you want a prebuilt .dll, check out:
>>
>>http://www.tiac.net/users/cgf/cygwinb19.dll-gz
>>
>>(Don't ask about the the -gz "extension".  My ISP is incompetent...)
>>
>>	patch from cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
>>	* spawn.cc (spawn_guts):  Make argument handling after `#! pgm'
>>	handle spaces similarly to UNIX.  Close "linearized" file handles
>>	when a non-cygwin32 binary is executed or suffer hangs on exit.
>>	Reorganize lpReserved2 buffer to avoid conflicts with Microsoft usage
>>	which resulted in incorrect stdin/stdout operation with programs
>>	compiled using MSVC.
>>	* pinfo.cc (pinfo_init):  Accomodate change to lpReserved2
>>	organization.
>>
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