Install 1.3.22-1 problem - default text file type - DOS

Wed Aug 6 17:37:00 GMT 2003

You need to rebuild byacc changing O_BINARY to O_TEXT and
"rb"/"wb" to "rt"/"wt" for open/fopen calls.
Larry
Francis Harvey wrote:
> Greetings,
>> I realize most people may not be familiar with the byacc package, but
> it can't hurt to ask. I would like to alter the behavior of byacc to
> make the file pointer yyin use this "text" mode by default. I can
> always reopen the pointer myself in the correct mode, but it would be
> nice to know whether or not there is an option to already accomplish
> this. For now, I will assume I have to reopen the pointer to take
> advantage of the technique below.
>> Francis R. Harvey III
> WB303, x3952
> harveyf1@westat.com
>> VB programmers know the wisdom of Nothing
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Larry Hall [mailto:cygwin-lh@cygwin.com] 
>>Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 5:31 PM
>>To: Brian Dessent
>>Cc: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
>>Subject: Re: Install 1.3.22-1 problem - default text file type - DOS
>>>>>>Brian Dessent wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>>But that completely misses the point of "text" mode. You 
>>>>should always
>>>>>use just "\n" in your strings in the source code, and open any files
>>>containing text in "text" mode i.e. fopen("foo", "rt"). 
>>>>That way, when
>>>>>you read and write to the file "\n" will be converted to 
>>>>"\r\n" by the
>>>>>io library, but your code will be portable to any other 
>>>>posix system.
>>>>>If you explicitly use "\r\n" in your program then you have 
>>>>to make sure
>>>>>the file is always opened in binary mode otherwise you'll could get
>>>> ^^^^^^
>> opened and _written_
>>>>>"\r\r\n" as your line delimiter.
>>>>>>Brian
>>>>>>-- 
>>Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com
>>RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
>>838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX
>>Holliston, MA 01746
>>
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