Re: [AD] DOS vs Unix format

[George Foot <gfoot@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 01:00:24PM +0100, Sven Sandberg wrote:
> Eric Botcazou wrote:
> > Hence my question: what's the rationale for still maintaining multiple
> > text encoding formats in the CVS repository, given that we have the fix
> > utility ?
> 
> dos doesn't understand batfiles that are in non-dos format.

That shouldn't be a problem because CVS checkouts always convert
text files to local format, and releases should convert the fix
scripts appropriately no matter what platform you're using to
make the release.  However, I notice that fix.sh doesn't ever
convert batch files to DOS format (while fix.bat does), and
neither touches shell scripts, so I guess releases don't convert
the files in this way after all.  IMHO the simplest thing is to
fix this, rather than make things which are essentially text
files appear binary in the repository.

George

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