Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2001/02/07/13:18:37
> From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero" <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
> Organization: Darmstadt University of Technology
> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 07:19:33 +0200
> >
> > Where does one find the original distribution of this version on the
> > net?
>
> It is available at:
> <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/recode/recode-3.6.tar.gz>
Thanks. I actually tried there before asking, but didn't see
anything. Perhaps I mistyped some directory name.
> For a reason I have still not fully understood, libiconv.a
> likes to read and write always in text mode.
Does that mean that `recode' now reads and writes files in text mode?
If so, that's a terrible bug: a utility such as `recode' which
converts arbitrary-encoded files should never use text-mode I/O,
because of lone CR characters, the ^Z nuisance, and the need to be
able to produce Unix-style EOLs when a suitable surface was requested.
I thought libiconv.a was only used for converting characters, not for
I/O. What am I missing?
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