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Re: XWin.exe crashes


Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Maybe everything in Cygwin/XFree86 should be linked with /usr/lib/binmode.o?

What about compilers (as xkbcomp) they read a textfile and write a binary
file. What happens if input is textfile on text-mount (with CRLF) and the
program does not check for \r as possible line ending. 

IMHO the better way is to fix the programs to use fopen(..,"rb") and 
O_BINARY.

bye
    ago

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