FW: Re: Why is my executabel in DOS file format?

[Meg Abyte]

>DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > > However, this should be fixed - its clearly not following the spec.
> > > /cr/lf/null  != /r/n
> >
> > Ok, then, what is it?  CR = carriage return = '\r' in C, LF = line
> > feed = '\n' in C (at least in binary mode, which bfd uses).  The only
> > change it seems you're proposing is adding a NUL byte after each LF.
> > (but NULL is not the same as NUL).
>
>Of course, that doesn't make much sense in context, since dos2unix
>wouldn't fix add a NUL character.
>
>I think the only reasonable way to interpret that suggestion is that
>each line should end in exactly one of
>
>     CR (ASCII 13)
>     LR (ASCII 10)
>     NULL (presumably ASCII 0)
>

Are you sure /n =  is turing into a line feed ?  I don't think it is, thus I 
wouldn't need to run DOS2UNIX. I just tried it with the HEX values and  /n 
etc. I found  /n on my linux box is a CR and LF.
Thus explaining the problem with the tools is that there is really a  
/CR/CR/LF due to your /r.  I will get back to you on the success of the 
change you suggested, they are compiling...

I will get the spec in a place where you all can access it then since this 
seems to be the problem that you guys don't have the spec. Or I will post it 
here since it isn't that large.


>Of course that would not generate a normal text file on DOS.  That
>sounds like a change which would break backward compatibility in a bad
>way.
>
>An alternative, which would also not follow the suggested spec, would
>be to generate S-records as a text file appropriate for the particular
>host.  Of course, that would be a pain in other ways, since BFD
>currently always generate binary files.


Ian, I am not sure why you keep replying saying it is not a text file when I 
have QUOTED right out of the SPEC it is a text file - ASCII READABLE!

I can take a TEXT editor and TYPE IN the SREC using VI, and this works 
completely fine.

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