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

[Francis Harvey <HARVEYF1 at WESTAT dot com>]

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
> 
> 
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