From: lhall@rfk.com (Larry Hall) Subject: Re: BUG REPORT: patch 8 Mar 1998 20:14:52 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980308222401.00999920.cygnus.gnu-win32@pop.ma.ultranet.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: David Fox , Geoffroy Montel Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com At 12:56 PM 3/8/98 -0500, David Fox wrote: >Geoffroy Montel writes: > >> There's a slight bug in the patch command: the files processed by >> "patch" then have the DOS format.... a bit annoying isn't it? > >"sed" does the same thing. >-- >David Fox http://www.cat.nyu.edu/fox xoF divaD >NYU Media Research Lab fox@cat.nyu.edu baL hcraeseR aideM UYN For those seeing this problem, are you sure you have your file systems mounted as binary? If not, you'll see this. I don't want this to degenerate into a holy war about how things should be but if mounts are not binary, you could conceivably categorize most of these tools as broken. But please, let's not run through the whole list here... Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (781) 239-1053 8 Grove Street (781) 239-1655 - FAX Wellesley, MA 02181 http://www.rfk.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".