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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