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From: "Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] cygutils:conv.c: Prevent truncation of file if 0xFF is encountered
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 21:52:52 +0100
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> Hello ;)
> 
> Today a colleague of mine was struck by a bug of dos2unix/unix2dos
> utilities i.e. if the code encounters 0xFF in the file being processed
> it erronously thinks that this is the EOF and stops processing. The
> result is that the original file is truncated to the position of the
> 0xFF character.
> 
> As to why we have such characters in source file - our mother language
> is bulgarian and we sometimes still type comments in it :)
> 
> A patch is attached to fix this behaviour.
See my reply on cygwin-patches mailing list.

Regards
Chris



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