Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <19990621142924.23990.rocketmail@web116.yahoomail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 07:29:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Subject: Re: LF vs. CR/LF (WAS: Problems with libtiff!) To: cygwin users MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Ulrich Koehler wrote: > 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. > Welcome to the world of portable programming. > Will I experience problems within the cygwin-environment, > if I use only text=binary mounts? > Yes. If the script files contain \r\n line endings then bash and sh will properly execute them. Don't change to text=binary in order to become lazy. I always suggest that you leave it witht the text!=binary default. > 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. Good. > I wrote 'it seems to work', because the 'thumbnail' binary > still does not work. Maybe there is another reason why, > 'tiff2ps' does work. If it uses the fopen call you would use "rb" in the function instead of just "r" to open in binary mode. Unfortunately there isn't a "rt" equivalent for text mode. You can use though the setmode function to set either _O_BINARY or _O_TEXT mode after the open call before reading/writing anything into the buffer. > 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. I'm just learning the autoconf configure script language myself. Shouldn't be too difficult to learn. Just start small and grow big. === Earnie Boyd Newbies, please visit (If you respond to the list, then please don't include me) _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com