Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2002/05/22/20:10:13
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Matthew Smith wrote:
> I'll vote "yes" for this, but I do have a question: have you dealt with
> binary/text issues specific to the windows platform in your port?
I know of one issue concerning loading of functions. Is there another
you had in mind? For the most part, zsh handles cr+lf as if it were lf
implicitly. For loading functions, the code assumes a binary mode, ie:
the number of bytes reported by stat() of a file is the number of bytes
reported back from read() after reading in the whole file. On a
filesystem mounted in textmode, this isn't always true and can cause the
function to not load. I really feel this is a filesystem attribute
issue, but if it's annoying enough for people, I'll loosen the size
matching restrictions. A workaround for now is to strip your functions
of all Carriage-Returns, thus only have linefeeds in the file.
> cheers,
> -Matt
>
> > Hi All,
> > In doing porting work for another project, I ended up porting zsh (my
> > favorite shell) to Cygwin, so I might as well offer it as a package. I
> > will be an active maintainer of zsh as I use this shell on a regular bases
> > on many systems. Here's the setup.hint and all the URLs:
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