Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 10:46:42 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>,
        djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: .INF files questions
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On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>
>On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
>
>>   So if better if all the files are UNIX. That's the same for info.exe and
>> the files are little smaller in this way, so I don't see any reason to
>> distribute some files in DOS format.
>
>Please don't do that.  Info.exe can read both DOS- and Unix-style files,
>both compressed and uncompressed, so why shouldn't your Info reader do the
>same?  It is so simple!  Previous versions of info.exe indeed required
To cope with that you could read .inf files in binary mode (if they are not 
compressed) and then convert dos2unix with a call to crlf2lf() on the buffer.
The same would be if uncompressed the files, just convert the buffer in
memory to unix format.


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