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From: "Demmer, Thomas" <TDemmer AT kjs DOT com>
To: "'Ulrich Koehler'" <koehler AT mvt DOT tu-clausthal DOT de>,
        cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: RE: LF vs. CR/LF (WAS: Problems with libtiff!)
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 14:09:55 +0200
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Just to add my 2 cents to that:
The source of the zip program suite shows a quite nice way
how to handle that difference on various platforms. Should be
mandatory for all ports ;-)

Ciao
Tom

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ulrich Koehler [SMTP:koehler AT mvt DOT tu-clausthal DOT de]
> Sent:	Monday, June 21, 1999 1:01 PM
> To:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> Subject:	LF vs. CR/LF (WAS: Problems with libtiff!)
> 
> Hello,
> 
> first of all: thank you for your help!
> This RTFM! goes to me. I was not aware of the CR/LF
> problem and the differences between text and binary
> mode because I never browsed through the documentation.
> I did not even know that you can open files in text-mode,
> it sounds like a strange idea to me. Because I'm working
> on many platforms, I create and edit only text files with
> UNIX-style line-endings on Windows and I'm trying to keep
> my environment CR/LF-free.
> 
> Will I experience problems within the cygwin-environment,
> if I use only text=binary mounts?
> 
> BTW:
> I've changed the single open() call in the libtiff-source to
> open the file as binary ( If I remember correctly the value
> O_BINARY is defined, I added '|0x100000' to the mode bits).
> It now seems to work now even with
> my default text!=binary mount. I could compile and link
> my application and used it without problems.
> I wrote 'it seems to work', because the 'thumbnail' binary
> still does not work. Maybe there is another reason why,
> 'tiff2ps' does work.
> I do not have the knowlegde to make a complete port using
> the configure script and I still want to be sure that I did
> the right thing.
> 
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