thanks for the reply larry - i realize that fixing the ghostscript port would be a solution, but my impression from reading the cygwin user manual is that setting CYGWIN to binmode could serve as a workaround - in my case it didn't and i don't understand why - i'm beginning to suspect that cygwin is ignoring that i've set CYGWIN to binmode which would be a cygwin bug
"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote: > 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 -- 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/
