[m-dev.] dos2unix

[Fergus Henderson]

On 20-Nov-2002, Peter Ross <pro at missioncriticalit.com> wrote:
> On the IL backend the output of the tests are in dos format while the
> expected output of the tests are in Unix format.  I solve this by piping the
> output through dos2unix before saving it to a file.
> 
> Does anyone have objections to this solution or a better way to solve this
> problem?

The right solution is to do `cvs checkout tests' on a Cygwin file
system which has been mounted in text mode.  Then the *.exp files will
be in DOS format.

E.g.
	mkdir /cygdrive/c/textmode
	mkdir /textmode
	mount --text 'C:\textmode' /textmode
	cd /textmode
	cvs checkout tests

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