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Re: help with RCS under cygwin: newlines on text mount
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: help with RCS under cygwin: newlines on text mount |
Date: |
Tue, 8 Jan 2002 15:35:59 +0200 |
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Thomas Mellman wrote:
> (by "master files", I understand "archive files" (i.e. ,v), right?)
Yes.
> Does that mean that I have to have my RCS directories on a different
> mount point that is binary mounted?
That's one possibility, but I'd think that using O_BINARY in open or "wb"
in fopen would be a better alternative. setmode is also a possible
solution.
> I thought I'd read somewhere that the source code itself was smart
> enough to do that and always opened the archives in binary mode ...
I don't have the RCS sources around to look, but if it indeed does so,
you might be looking at some library bug.