Re: [Patch] XEmacs args in make.bat

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:

> On Thu, Apr 17 2003, Kevin Greiner wrote:
>
>> The new make.bat worked fine with emacs.  The only issue was that,
>> when I opened make.bat in emacs, each line was terminated with a pair
>> of linefeed characters.
>
> Emacs should be happy with both line terminators.  When editing a DOS
> file, Emacs will indicate "(DOS)" in the mode line.
>
>> I've checked in a change to fix the linefeed characters.
>
> I don't use Windows, but I always thought that MS-DOS batch files
> *must* have CRLF (\r\n) line terminators not unix-style LF (\n).  I'd
> suggest to revert you change, Kevin.

Yes, but you don't introduce them literally on a Unix box.  CVS
understands that text files have O/S dependent line terminators so the
\r is added/removed automatically.

If you added \r while on a Unix box, it would explain why I saw \r\r\n
when checking-out the file on windows.

I've been told that earlier versions of the make.bat file were flagged
as binary in CVS.  That would certainly explain the misunderstanding as
binary DOS files would appear in DOS mode on a Unix box.  Personally,
while I didn't make the change, I prefer having a text file marked as
text in CVS.


Kevin