From: fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: text-vs-binary yet again 14 Mar 1998 14:16:34 -0800 Message-ID: <19980312142706.07929.cygnus.gnu-win32@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <19980310124308.20991.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Earnie Boyd Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com On 10-Mar-1998, Earnie Boyd wrote: > > As an aside, I don't know how you are going to use cygwin32 but if you > plan to port any UNIX code you will need to modify your mounts to be > text=binary. Check out the archives and FAQ for this. No, you don't need to modify your mounts to be text=binary. The other alternative is to fix any places where the source code of whatever it is you're porting opens binary files without specifying "b"/O_BINARY in the fopen/open flags, and to fix any places where the source code makes assumptions about the representation of text files. This alternative is a little more work, but the resulting programs will be able to interoperate with native Windows programs much better. -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".