On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:45:12PM -0500, Dao, Giathang wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to apply a diff patch to a tree of files containing binaries and windows > text files. > The binaries are patched correctly but the newlines in the text files are converted > to unix newlines. > > How can I prevent cygwin's patch from converting dos or crlf newlines to unix > newlines?
You can't. Patch has no mechanism to determine the file type of the input file. It creates a patched result from two input files, both either text- or bimmode. The result is a binmode file in the temp dir. This is copied back to the original localtion. > I found a post dated 3+ years ago which describes the exact opposite behavior (his > problem would have been my solution): > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/1998-11/msg00337.html That was a bug. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
