From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32188 invoked by alias); 9 Dec 2001 21:31:36 -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 31543 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2001 21:30:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-green.research.att.com) (135.207.30.103) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Dec 2001 21:30:15 -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 533B61E003 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 16:30:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from research.att.com ([135.210.96.101]) by postal.research.att.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA27898 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 16:27:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C13D852.AB52440B@research.att.com> Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 13:40:00 -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: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ghostscript binmode weirdness Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00509.txt.bz2 ok - i fixed the problem in the ghostscript port - how do i go about getting the fix back into the cygwin distro? p.s. the link you sent me to is very clear about what the CYGWIN=binmode achieves - however, another part of the cywin manual (the one i happened to be reading: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-textbinary.html) is not nearly so clear which led to my confusion > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:43:11AM -0500, Gregory W. Bond wrote: > > 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 > > That's not what the CYGWIN=binmode setting is for. > > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html > > The workaround you're talking about would be to use binary mount points. > > Corinna > -- 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/