Re: [AD] MSVC 8 target

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On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 18:33 -0500, Matthew Leverton wrote:

> 
> * The --quick parameter was removed in favor of --crlf, which enables
> the conversion on demand. The reason for this is that 99.99% of the
> time it doesn't need to be done on Windows. It had already been
> silently disabled on some of the Windows targets, which means there
> was no way to trigger the conversion anyway. I know there is a desire
> to keep the parameters the same between fix.bat and fix.sh, but I just
> cannot see any justification for the --quick switch on Windows.

For what it's worth, I find the --quick very annoying under unix too.
Sometimes I forget it, then have to use ctrl-c to stop the stupid
conversion. Attached is a patch which makes it default there as well. So
now fix.bat and fix.sh behave the same again :)

-- 
Elias Pschernig
Index: fix.sh
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/alleg/allegro/fix.sh,v
retrieving revision 1.25
diff -u -p -r1.25 fix.sh
--- fix.sh	11 Jul 2004 11:48:02 -0000	1.25
+++ fix.sh	22 Aug 2005 23:43:27 -0000
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ proc_help()
    echo "The --quick parameter turns off text file conversion, --dtou converts from"
    echo "DOS/Win32 format to Unix, --utod converts from Unix to DOS/Win32 format,"
    echo "--utom converts from Unix to Macintosh format and --mtou converts from"
-   echo "Macintosh to Unix format. If no parameter is specified --dtou is assumed."
+   echo "Macintosh to Unix format. If no parameter is specified --quick is assumed."
    echo
 
    AL_NOCONV="1"
@@ -147,7 +147,6 @@ if [ "$AL_NOCONV" != "1" ]; then
       "--utom"  ) proc_utom "$1";;
       "--mtou"  ) proc_mtou "$1";;
       "--quick" ) echo "No text file conversion performed ...";;
-      *         ) proc_dtou "$1";;
    esac
 fi
 


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