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From: "Kris Warkentin" <kewarken AT qnx DOT com>
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Subject: Re: textmode.o, automode.o, etc.
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:28:03 -0400
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Well happy day!  I just linked GNU cpp with textmode.o and it works fine.  I
think that I'm going to take the easy way out and just do that.  Now if I
can only figure out how to get the configure script to do that for me rather
than doing it manually. ;-)

Thank you very much.

Kris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: textmode.o, automode.o, etc.


> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:54:58PM -0400, lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com wrote:
> >Whenever you're looking to find out where a file or utility is in
> >Cygwin (assuming you don't have it local that you can just search),
> >use http://cygwin.com/packages/.  It will tell you the package that
> >contains the file.  In this case, these files come with the Cygwin
> >package so if you've installed Cygwin via setup, you have the files
> >in question.
> >
> >textmode.o, automode.o, and binmode.o do as you surmise.  They just
> >set the mode of unspecified file I/O.  You can find lots of discussion
> >of these files and their operation in the email list archives.  Take a
> >look there and/or at the source if you're interested in more details.
> >But I have to agree with Chris on this.  If your main goal is to just
> >get a cpp that works the way Cygwin's does, your best bet is to just
> >download the source via setup and use it.  Since Chris is the maintainer
> >for gcc, I don't think you'll get better advice on how to get like
> >functionality.
>
> FWIW, I don't *think* that gcc 2.95.3-?  used automode, textmode, or
> binmode.  I believe that DJ may have patched them to open text files in
> text mode.
>
> cgf
>
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