From: corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de (Corinna Vinschen)
Subject: Re: winsup-990126: Strange problem with cvs 1.10
30 Jan 1999 17:23:15 -0800
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To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> Does it display the same symptoms without CYGWIN=binmode?

Hi DJ,

yes, it does. I have locally solved this problem by replacing the
code, which sets binary/text mode in fhandler_base::fhandler_base() and
fhandler_base::open() by the old code from winsup-981230.

Regards,
Corinna


> > > This sounds like it might be a CR/LF problem.  Could you pipe the
> > > output through "cat -vetu" and see if it notices ^M changes?
> >
> > Yes, you can see ^M in the versionfile foo,v while output. This
> > isn't the truth for the file foo,v on disk, but cvs copies the
> > contents into a temporary file, which has dos newlines after that.
> > Then it's opened for reading in binary mode!
> >
> > I'm using CYGWIN='binmode ntea tty' and only binary mounts.