Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:36:58 -0500 Message-Id: <200012142236.RAA26863@envy.delorie.com> X-Authentication-Warning: envy.delorie.com: dj set sender to dj AT envy DOT delorie DOT com using -f From: DJ Delorie To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com In-reply-to: <200012142234.RAA24937@indy.delorie.com> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:34:50 -0500 (EST)) Subject: Re: MS-DOS path support in CVS References: <200012141821 DOT NAA24932 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <200012142234 DOT RAA24937 AT indy DOT delorie DOT com> Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk > This doesn't work with DOS batch files. If you read it in text mode, > the CRs get stripped away. After that, checking it out will write it > in binary mode, with Unix-style LFs, and you get an unusable batch > file, because COMMAND.COM won't run it. I suspect that, in this case, the user should tag that file as binary so that the CRs are always preserved, no matter what.