Re: Need help. Latest snapshot may be next cygwin net release.

[Rick Rankin <rick_rankin at yahoo dot com>]

So far, this snapshot has cleaned up the issues I was seeing.

Many thanks!

Rick
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--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
> I would appreciate it if any adventurous souls would try out the
> latest cygwin snapshot by downloading this:
> 
> ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/snapshots/cygwin1-20000524.dll.gz
> 
> This file should be copied to your /bin directory.  There should also
> be a cygwin1.dll in this directory.  If there isn't, you're in the wrong
> directory.
> 
> Once it's downloaded please:
> 
>     1) Terminate all running cygwin applications
> 
>     2) In the command shell, cd to the MS-DOS equivalent of your /bin
>        directory, e.g.,
> 	d:
> 	cd cygwin\bin
> 
>     3) gzip -d cygwin1-20000524.dll.gz
> 
>     4) copy cygwin1.dll cygwin1.dll.safe
> 
>     5) copy cygwin1-20000524.dll cygwin1.dll
> 
>     6) Check any failing applications for correct operation.
> 
> This snapshot should fix all of the "\r\n" line ending problems that
> were in cygwin-1.1.1.  It should also fix problems with rxvt on Windows
> 95.
> 
> Just to be clear, fixing "\r\n" line endings means that if you are in a
> directory that has been mounted using the "-t" option then makefiles
> should work as they used to in cygwin B20 and cygwin 1.1.0.  This DLL
> fixes problems with text mode reads.
> 
> This DLL does not change anything about the way that the setup.exe
> program previously mounted your root directory.  setup.exe mounts the
> root directory as "binary".  If this is not acceptable you still have
> to mount any directory containing files with MS-DOS style line endings
> with the "-t" option.
> 
> So, if you have a directory called d:\src and it has all of your
> sources in it, and they all have the carriage-return/line-feed endings
> you have to:
> 
> 	mount -t -f d:\src /src
> 
> This will cause files in d:\src and any subdirectories of d:\src to be
> interpreted in text mode.
> 
> If you do try out this DLL, I would appreciate hearing success or failure
> reports here in the cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com mailing list.  Do not
> send them to me personally.
> 
> If everything seems to be working well, I'll release a new version of
> the DLL over the weekend.
> 
> Christopher Faylor
> Cygwin Engineering Manager (and developer)
> Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company
> 
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