From: fox@cat.nyu.edu (David Fox) Subject: Re: BUG REPORT: patch 9 Mar 1998 06:43:34 -0800 Message-ID: References: <19980305161227.16018.rocketmail@send1c.yahoomail.com> To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Larry Hall writes: > 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. > > 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... Ok, this seems to have done the trick, thanks. I was not aware of the notion of mounting in the Cygwin32 system. -- David Fox http://www.cat.nyu.edu/fox xoF divaD NYU Media Research Lab fox@cat.nyu.edu baL hcraeseR aideM UYN - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".