Re: [Groff] win32 experiences?

[GnuWin32]

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Van: "Jorgen Grahn" <address@hidden>
Aan: <address@hidden>
Verzonden: donderdag 28 oktober 2004 10:56
Onderwerp: Re: [Groff] win32 experiences?


On Wed Oct 27 18:07:15 2004, address@hidden wrote:
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> > It is not groff (that is, troff and the post processors) that have
> > problems with CRLF files. Rather, it is some of the preprocessors. E.g.,
> > tbl dies unceremoniously if given a CRLF file. Perhaps it should be
> > considered a bug: some parts of groff are able to handle EOL
> > transparently, while other parts don't.

The binaries from Gnuwin32 should not have such problems, and in my 
experience do not indeed have them, since they use the standard MS-Windows 
way of reading files, whereby text files are upon reading converted to 
binary.

> > A Cygwin specific solution is to have your working space in a text
> > mount, which will make Cygwin translate EOLs from DOS to UNIX and back
> > transparently (as in behind your back, will kill binary object files, so
> > don't compile anything under such conditions). May or may not work, YMMV.

> That is probably what I did, and why it seemed to work out for me. I used
> Cygwin's tbl at work for a while (to format something that was all but
> unreadable with our "normal" Windows tools).

In the Cygwin setup one can also choose to have standard MS-Windows text 
file handling. In the third screen you can choose as Default Text File Type 
either DOS or Unix. DOS implies the standard MS-Windows way for text files 
(i.e. CRLF is upon reading converted to CR).

Kees Zeelenberg