On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:25:30 +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 19:00 -0800, Tom Lord wrote: >> The issue is garbage: it's residual from early mudslinging between the >> MSFT world and everyone else, afaict. >> >> Stick something in your makefiles if you're stuck with line-ending issues. >> >> Bitch to your MSFT tool vendors -- logically, albeit it not economically, >> they >> are the odd man out. > > For all that, I think something consistent is needed. If in ones > archive, you want unix line endings, but have contributors on older > macos machines, and on windows machines, then you have to deal with > toolchains on each platform being different. (I know of 3 different > ASCII line ending formats that have been in widespread use). > > The one common point of interchange is the RCS. I think it has to be > there that the solution is hooked in, whether its native to the RCS or > not.
Isn't diff being used to determine whether a file is binary? If it is then the appropriate fopen mode with 'b' tacked on should make things work for both text and binary, no? Anand _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
