From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Subject: RE: symlink testcase failure
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 18:33:36 +0100
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> local. I use cvs from the wincvs distribution which by default
> stores files
> in DOS format. The symlink file in question contains LFs. The LF->CRLF
> conversion changed the file size which made the symlink routine return an
> error because the file size was wrong.
I'd suggest checking out the entire tree again, with CVSUSEUNIXLF set in
the environment, or '--lf' added to the options (in your .cvsrc). This
_should_ help, I think, as it preserves line endings.  This will only work
from 1.1b16 onwards, I think. WinCVS 1.2 definitely supports it.