RE: [Gcl-devel] ["Gordon Shaw Novak" <address@hidden>] Re:GCLgetting slushy ...

[Mike Thomas]

Hi again.

Looking further into this, I see that at least part of the problem which
Gordon is reporting is caused by the fact that the stdio handles passed to
GCL at start up are set to text mode before default file handling is set to
binary in main.c.  The fix is simple and in both CVS branches now.

Cheers

Mike Thomas.


| -----Original Message-----
| From: address@hidden
| [mailto:address@hidden
| Behalf Of Mike Thomas
| Sent: Monday, 23 February 2004 9:26 AM
| To: Camm Maguire
| Cc: address@hidden
| Subject: RE: [Gcl-devel] ["Gordon Shaw Novak" <address@hidden>]
| Re:GCLgetting slushy ...
|
|
| Hi there.
|
| >From Camm:
|
| | Hi Mike!
| |
| | ==================================================================
| | ===========
| | From: "Gordon Shaw Novak" <address@hidden>
| |
| | Thanks, Camm.
| |
| | The previously mentioned problem of ^M characters appearing when
| | gcl is used within Emacs under Windoze would be a good thing to fix
| | if it isn't too hard.
| | ==================================================================
| | ===========
| |
| | When you have a chance, could you please confirm that this has been
| | addressed by the recent readline changes?
|
| The Windows build doesn't use readline so I doubt it.
|
| I don't know how to use GCL from inside emacs - I always run them
| separately.  If someone can tell me some easy steps to achieve
| that I'll try
| and look into it.
|
| I have considered changing GCL to never write CR characters but it is a
| subtle problem depending on the circumstances and I haven't yet fully
| understood what happens with line endings in the various Common
| Lisp format
| and print functions.  Nor do I know what the ramifications vis-a-vis the
| ANSI specification might be.
|
| In principle, it is probably statistically valid to change GCL so that it
| reads the various kinds of line ending properly, but only ever
| outputs Unix
| style LF line endings because on modern Windows systems Notepad
| is the only
| text processing program I am aware of which does not understand them.
|
| The approach I favour is to have a global variable and a setting function
| which optionally turns CR output on and off.
|
| Cheers
|
| Mike Thomas
|
|
|
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