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

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings, and thanks!  Can someone please confirm whether this clears
the problem?  Will a modified windows binary be required for such
confirmation?  

Take care,

"Mike Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:

> 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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