On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:13:15AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
: Oh, I get it,
: it's cl that's creating the program that outputs the lines that contains the
: \r\n. This means that your "wb" would cause the cl created program to output
: only \n line endings and would be read appropriately with Cygwin packages on
: binary mounts.
Yes.
: Given that "wb" and "rb" are ANSI compliant then I suggest that your "wb" patch
: to be correct. It solves the problems created by non-Cygwin programs and this
: includes all other Win32 ports of GCC.
Someone suggested just removing the \n completely from the sprintf() format string
before writing it with fwrite(). I think that is the best solution. Then we should
be able to drop binary mode (which may or may not cause trouble on some obscure
systems) again.
Lars J
