On 22 June 2007 18:56, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2007-06-22, Dave Korn wrote: >> On 21 June 2007 21:47, Lee Rhodes wrote: >> >> >>> I am struggling with the infamous unix/dos end-of-line '\r\n' vs '\n' >>> incompatibilities. It seems that no matter what shell I use (bash, sh, >>> Cygwin, rxvt, dos) that the gnu make utility throws errors when it sees >>> the '\r' CR character. >>> >>> Do I have to convert ALL the downloaded files into the unix format >>> (dos2unix)? >> >> Nope, what you have to do is you have to /not/ use winzip to unpack the >> archives. Use cygwin's command-line tar utility. > > I agree with the advice to use tar, but WinZip does have an option > to fix this behavior.
It still won't get links and perms right, though. Don't use winzip. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/