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Re: help with RCS under cygwin: newlines on text mount


From: 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.



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