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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
Organization: INTI
To: Agent Drek <drek AT monsterbymistake DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 15:49:25 +0000
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Subject: Re: File sharing NT--UNIX EOL
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Agent Drek <drek AT monsterbymistake DOT com> wrote:

>     We just ported some of our C code from Unix (IRIX6.XX) to NT 4.0
> using DJGPP on the NT

Ugly idea.
 
> ie:
> sprintf(file,"%s/%s/%s%s",SPOOL_DIR,argv[2],argv[2],SPOOL_COMP_EXT);
> 
> Our problem is when one of the NT boxes makes an entry in the data base
> it puts
> a bunch of ^M 's for EOL (end of line)
> 
> For now this just looks bad
> 
> I think I want ^J characters to be printed instead of ^M
> 
> Is this something I can change in DJGPP?

Are you opening the files in text or binary mode? It looks like a \r\n 
instead of \n problem. In UNIX files are simple but in DOS some idiot taked 
the desition of using 2 characters to end lines (13+10) and to make the 
C programs work the compilers added options to open/fopen to make it 
transparent.

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