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Re: DOS-EOL bug in "fgets"
- To: Serguei dot Grigoriev at Physik dot Uni-Augsburg dot DE
- Subject: Re: DOS-EOL bug in "fgets"
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 09:09:30 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: cygwin users <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- "Sergey R. Grigoriev" <Serguei.Grigoriev@Physik.Uni-Augsburg.DE> wrote:
>
>
> Hello Earnie
>
> I've reinstalled all-CYGWIN from NET yesterday.
>
> probably I don't understand EOL and gets() problem correct...
> but I see, that gets() returns "\r\n" as EOL for DOS-Files and
> '\n' for UNIX-Files. But make (see function readline() in read.c from
> make-distribution) can check only '\n' - and parcer will see this
> '\r' later...
> I thank, that CYGWIN-gets() converts 2-byte DOS-EOL into '\n'-Unix EOL
> like it does it in MINGW.
>
>
Ok, get the latest dll snapshot from
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/snapshots/ and see if that helps. Yes,
there were patches to fgets to help deal with \r\n and something broke, a fix
was supposedly put into place yesterday.
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---
Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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