Re: hello-2.1.91 and CR/LF

[Bruno Haible]

Karl Berry wrote:
>     Or produce output with CR/LF always, 
> 
> Really?  That seems wrong to me for Hello (and just about any other
> program).  Just running hello on a Unixish system shouldn't write a \r!

Not on Unix systems, of course. But on Woe32 systems, writing text with
CR/LF is the normal thing to do. The problem is only with Cygwin, because
Cygwin is a POSIX implementation on one hand, and running inside a Woe32
box on the other hand. They solve this conflict like this:
  http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-textbinary.html

Bruno