From: fox@cat.nyu.edu (David Fox) Subject: Re: RPM for Cygwin32 B19 16 Jul 1998 21:57:55 -0700 Message-ID: References: To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Marcus Brown writes: > Also, when executing rpm, I recieve the error even when running the > program with no arguments. It does the same when executing it with "-v > -v -v" or any arbitrary argument. Does rpm usually say "Re-execing > rpm"? > > > Marcus > > Note: The line that rpm referred to (rpmrc:36) is as follows: > > arch_canon: i986: i986 1 > > I opened this file once before in NT's brain dead edit.exe, which does > not preserve tabs, could this have something to do with it? You might see this error if you edited your rpmrc and saved it in so-called ``ASCII mode'', with a control-M before every control-J. This is the norm in the MS-DOS world. Thanks to anonymous for pointing out this possibility. -- 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".