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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Gregory W. Bond" <bond AT research DOT att DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <3C13D852 DOT AB52440B AT research DOT att DOT com>
Subject: Re: ghostscript binmode weirdness
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 08:39:31 +1100
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Send a patch thats contains your fix to the Ghostscript maintainer, cc'd
to cygwin-patches.

Rob
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory W. Bond" <bond AT research DOT att DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 8:32 AM
Subject: Re: ghostscript binmode weirdness


> 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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