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

[Larry Hall]

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
>>
>>
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