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Re: ghostscript binmode weirdness
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: "Gregory W. Bond" <bond at research dot att dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 09:27:07 -0500
- Subject: Re: ghostscript binmode weirdness
At 11:56 PM 12/6/2001, Gregory W. Bond wrote:
>i cannot get ghostscript to generate non-corrupted pdf files unless
>everything is happens on binmode mounts - is there no way that i can
>force binmode treatment on a text mount? i've read and re-read the
>cygwin manual and experimented with a zillion variations but nothing
>seems to work
>
>i've isolated the problem to the point when ghostscript writes the pdf
>file - if it writes the file to a textmode mount it is guaranteed to be
>corrupted due to the translation of LF to CRLF - i can't seem to prevent
>this from occurring even when the CYGWIN var is set to binmode prior to
>launching any cygwin shell - i wish i could move all my mounts to
>binmode but this will screw up too many other things - anyone have any
>suggestions for me?
Best suggestion - port ghostscript properly so that it always writes
binary files where it needs to.
Everything else is just a hack to avoid this eventuality...
Good luck,
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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