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Re: newline in patch command output
Hello, Corinna.
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:08:53AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> I'm not sure if it "must", but it's the solution which costs as few grief
> as possible. I tried various combinations but in the end, writing all
> output files in binary was the only one to stop patch to screw up files
> in one way or the other.
>
> Since you can be sure that patch creates always LF files, I don't see
> a problem in using unix2dos on them afterwards. It's reliable.
At first I didn't want it because I thought it would touch the unpatched
files; this seems not to be the case, so I think I can live with it,
although it takes some time to process the whole tree.
Thanks for your time!
With kind regards,
Baurjan.
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