Re: [Groff] gpreconv on Windows fails with CRLF files

[Anton Shepelev]

Keith Marshall:

> Actually, preconv opens its input stream in "bina-
> ry" mode, rather than in Window's  special  "text"
> mode.   Thus,  it  does see the \r\n EOL sequence,
> which it then explicitly interprets  as  the  line
> terminator,  so explicitly emulating the behaviour
> which would have been default, had it been  opened
> in "text" mode.

On  my  machine  it does not behave as you describe.
It interprets only '\n' as the EOL sequence  produc-
ing  a file with '\r\r\n' for every line end.  Natu-
rally, groff doesn't like it.

In other words, GNUWin32 preconv fails with Windows-
encoded files.

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