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Re: recent CR/LF problems


On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 01:38:10PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>I found the source of the CR/LF problem, and admit it was my fault.
>I've created a patch which I've sent out for comments and approval, and
>will get the patch into the dll as soon as possible.  I suspect that
>the 1.1.2 DLL will wait for this patch.
>
>Sorry for the inconvenience.
>
>DJ
>
>PS: for the technically interested, the problem was that fgets() was
>bypassing the new cr/lf conversion code, so always reading in binary
>mode.  I added a hook to the converter to it.

Thanks for finding this, DJ.

DJ's changes to newlib have made text mode processing much more
reliable.  I appreciate everyone's patience as we work out problems like
this.  The end result will be worth the minor pain.

cgf

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