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Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 16:32:02 -0500
From: "Gregory W. Bond" <bond AT research DOT att DOT com>
Organization: AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ
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Subject: Re: ghostscript binmode weirdness
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ok - i fixed the problem in the ghostscript port - how do i go about
getting the fix back into the cygwin distro?

p.s. the link you sent me to is very clear about what the CYGWIN=binmode
achieves - however, another part of the cywin manual (the one i happened
to be reading: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-textbinary.html) is
not nearly so clear which led to my confusion


> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:43:11AM -0500, Gregory W. Bond wrote:
> > thanks for the reply larry - i realize that fixing the ghostscript port would
> > be a solution, but my impression from reading the cygwin user manual is that
> > setting CYGWIN to binmode could serve as a workaround - in my case it didn't
> > and i don't understand why - i'm beginning to suspect that cygwin is ignoring
> > that i've set CYGWIN to binmode which would be a cygwin bug
>
> That's not what the CYGWIN=binmode setting is for.
>
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html
>
> The workaround you're talking about would be to use binary mount points.
>
> Corinna
>

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