Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:09:43 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
cc: DJGPP List Server <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: producing Win32 executables
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.93.970821081446.3258A-100000@gibson>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970821100810.26010G-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Precedence: bulk


On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Orlando Andico wrote:

> I'm not certain exactly what this means. However, I did notice that the
> Gnu-Win32 tools do NOT like DOS-style text files. I moved my /etc/profile
> from my Linux box and bash parsed it OK. When I deleted some lines with
> Notepad, bash couldn't read it anymore. 

That is exactly the kind of problems I was talking about.  I'm
guessing here that what you describe is the other face of that coin.
From what I understand, Cygnus solved the problems of handling binary
files by letting users ``mount'' NT drives with a binary option.
That is OK for binary files, but makes trouble with DOS-style text
files (which are also the native format for NT text files) in programs 
that expect lines to end with a single linefeed character.

There just ain't no easy way to make Microsoft platforms look Unixy
enough to run Unix-born programs unaltered.  Been there, done that...