i cannot get ghostscript to generate non-corrupted pdf files unless everything is happens on binmode mounts - is there no way that i can force binmode treatment on a text mount? i've read and re-read the cygwin manual and experimented with a zillion variations but nothing seems to work
i've isolated the problem to the point when ghostscript writes the pdf file - if it writes the file to a textmode mount it is guaranteed to be corrupted due to the translation of LF to CRLF - i can't seem to prevent this from occurring even when the CYGWIN var is set to binmode prior to launching any cygwin shell - i wish i could move all my mounts to binmode but this will screw up too many other things - anyone have any suggestions for me? here are a few details concerning the problem the value of CYGWIN is set prior to launching any cygwin shell $ echo $CYGWIN binmode i'm using the latest cygwin version of ghostscript $ gs -version GNU Ghostscript 6.51 (2001-03-28) Copyright (C) 2001 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. it doesn't matter how i choose to write the pdf file, it always ends up corrupted when it's written to a textmode mount gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -q -sOutputFile=blah.pdf - < blah.ps cat blah.ps | gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -q - > blah.pdf here are my mounts - i'm running ghostscript in a directory on the one textmode mount $ mount C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode) C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type user (binmode) C:\cygwin on / type user (binmode) c:\users on /home type system (textmode) c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount) -- Gregory W. Bond AT&T Labs - Research 180 Park Avenue, Rm. D273, Bldg. 103 P.O. Box 971, Florham Park, NJ, 07932-0971, USA tel: (973) 360 7216 fax: (973) 360 8187 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
