Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 08:48:09 +0200
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> From: Bruno Haible <haible AT ilog DOT fr>
> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 19:55:22 +0100 (CET)
> 
> >    IMHO, all MSDOS batch files in a GNU distribution should be converted to
> >    MSDOS style EOL or they are simple useless.
> 
> Done. Thanks here as well.
> 
> Btw, why wouldn't djtar take care of this?

djtar has a switch to convert text files to DOS EOL format, but then
it does this with _all_ text files.

We could change djtar to cnvert *.bat files to DOS EOL format as the
default, but users are allowed to use other tools to unpack the
distribution.  So this wouldn't be a fool-proof solution.  And since
the manifestation of the problem is likely to get the user stumped for
the rest of the day, it is best to eliminate the possibility of the
problem in the first place.