Re: PSPP-BUG: bug in NEWS ?

[Harry Thijssen]

Yes I guess the 1 is a form feed. And these feeds are the problem.

The program UNIX2DOS refuses to convert it to MSWindows format (LF ->
CR+LF) and reports :
  unix2dos: Binair bestand NEWS wordt overgeslagen
translated to English
  unix2dos: Binary file NEWS is skipped

Have fun



2010/11/19 Ben Pfaff <address@hidden>:
> Harry Thijssen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> The file NEWS is recognized as BINARY on my build. This seems to have
>> something to do with the small 1 on position 1. For instance in line
>> 493.
>
> Do you mean the form feeds, for example the one on the line just
> before "Changes from 0.3.0 to 0.4.0:"?  There is nothing binary
> about a form feed.
>
> When you say "The file NEWS is recognized as BINARY on my build",
> what do you mean?  What program identifies it as a binary file?
>
>> Besides the last lines in the text seems not correct to me. Can
>> you have a look at it?
>
> Do you mean these lines:
>
>    Local variables:
>    version-control: never
>    mode: indented-text
>    end:
>
> Those are OK.
> --
> Ben Pfaff
> http://benpfaff.org
>