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* Re: ghostscript binmode weirdness
@ 2001-12-09 13:40 Gregory W. Bond
  2001-12-09 13:45 ` Robert Collins
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Gregory W. Bond @ 2001-12-09 13:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin

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
>

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* ghostscript binmode weirdness
@ 2001-12-06 21:06 Gregory W. Bond
  2001-12-07  6:31 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Gregory W. Bond @ 2001-12-06 21:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin

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?

here are a few details concerning the problem

the value of CYGWIN is set prior to launching any cygwin shell

$ echo $CYGWIN
binmode

i'm using the latest cygwin version of ghostscript

$ gs -version
GNU Ghostscript 6.51 (2001-03-28)
Copyright (C) 2001 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.

it doesn't matter how i choose to write the pdf file, it always ends up
corrupted when it's written to a textmode mount

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -q -sOutputFile=blah.pdf - < blah.ps

cat blah.ps | gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -q - > blah.pdf

here are my mounts - i'm running ghostscript in a directory on the one
textmode mount

$ mount
C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type user (binmode)
C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type user (binmode)
C:\cygwin on / type user (binmode)
c:\users on /home type system (textmode)
c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)




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