At 11:56 PM 12/6/2001, Gregory W. Bond wrote: >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?
Best suggestion - port ghostscript properly so that it always writes binary files where it needs to. Everything else is just a hack to avoid this eventuality... Good luck, Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- 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/
