From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18473 invoked by alias); 7 Dec 2001 15:42:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 17620 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2001 15:41:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-green.research.att.com) (135.207.30.103) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Dec 2001 15:41:24 -0000 Received: from postal.research.att.com (postal.research.att.com [135.207.23.30]) by mail-green.research.att.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2598C1E05B; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 10:41:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from research.att.com (dhcp-new41.research.att.com [135.207.19.41]) by postal.research.att.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA15868; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 10:38:39 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C10E38F.4879178D@research.att.com> Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 07:55:00 -0000 From: "Gregory W. Bond" Organization: AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ghostscript binmode weirdness References: <4.3.1.2.20011207092543.02363bd0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00421.txt.bz2 thanks for the reply larry - i realize that fixing the ghostscript port would be a solution, but my impression from reading the cygwin user manual is that setting CYGWIN to binmode could serve as a workaround - in my case it didn't and i don't understand why - i'm beginning to suspect that cygwin is ignoring that i've set CYGWIN to binmode which would be a cygwin bug "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote: > At 11:56 PM 12/6/2001, Gregory W. Bond wrote: > >i cannot get ghostscript to generate non-corrupted pdf files unless > >everything is happens on binmode mounts - is there no way that i can > >force binmode treatment on a text mount? i've read and re-read the > >cygwin manual and experimented with a zillion variations but nothing > >seems to work > > > >i've isolated the problem to the point when ghostscript writes the pdf > >file - if it writes the file to a textmode mount it is guaranteed to be > >corrupted due to the translation of LF to CRLF - i can't seem to prevent > >this from occurring even when the CYGWIN var is set to binmode prior to > >launching any cygwin shell - i wish i could move all my mounts to > >binmode but this will screw up too many other things - anyone have any > >suggestions for me? > > Best suggestion - port ghostscript properly so that it always writes > binary files where it needs to. > > Everything else is just a hack to avoid this eventuality... > > Good luck, > > Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com > RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com > 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Gregory W. Bond AT&T Labs - Research 180 Park Avenue, Rm. D273, Bldg. 103 P.O. Box 971, Florham Park, NJ, 07932-0971, USA tel: (973) 360 7216 fax: (973) 360 8187 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/