Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:14:09 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Vince Rice cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: wtfindex and dos line endings In-Reply-To: <20031125140640.47082.qmail@web21502.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20031125140640 DOT 47082 DOT qmail AT web21502 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Vince Rice wrote: > I reported a couple of weeks ago that wtfindex choked on text mounts, > and Igor promptly fixed it (thanks, Igor!). I just discovered that > wtfindex can't handle DOS line endings, even on text mounts. > > That is, the standard acronyms file (for example) has Unix line > endings, and wtfindex now properly processes that file on either a > binary or text mount. However, I created a new acronyms file > yesterday with DOS line endings, and wtfindex produced a garbled > file. Changing the file back to Unix line endings corrected the > problem. So, I guess this could be a limitation or a bug, whichever > you choose. :) > > @SRS8100:/home/vrice\> uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-5.0 SRS8100 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown > unknown Cygwin > @SRS8100:/home/vrice\> cygcheck -c wtf > Cygwin Package Information > Package Version Status > wtf 0.0.4-5 OK > > Thanks, > Vince Vince, I'm sorry, I can't reproduce this on my machine. Please provide the *exact* steps needed to reproduce it, including the correct mount command (you can temporarily mount some directory, say /tmp/text, in text mode if you need to). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/