Re: [Groff] groff ms-windows

[Kees Zeelenberg]

If you install by using the Cygwin setup-program, you can choose the file type 
of text files:
unix or dos (cr-lf). If you choose dos, all works well in my experience.
You might also consider the native windows build that does not require cygwin:
ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/mingw32/porters/Zeelenberg_Kees/

Kees Zeelenberg

----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
Van: "Freudenberger Joerg" <address@hidden>
Aan: "'Johann Höchtl'" <address@hidden>
CC: "'groff Mailinglist'" <address@hidden>
Verzonden: woensdag 28 maart 2001 10:15
Onderwerp: RE: [Groff] groff ms-windows


> Hello Johann
>
> May I ask you to unpack the tar-ball with the cygwin command
> tar xvfz <tar-ball>
> I think you unpacked it using WinZip.
> (Yes, I was hit by this often in former times)
>   And the cygwin software is mostly compiled for unix files.
>
> Yours
> Jörg
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Johann Höchtl [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 9:56 PM
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: [Groff] groff ms-windows
> >
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > I downloaded groff 1.16.1 to replace the out-dated groff 1.11
> > installed
> > by cygwin's setup.exe. Unfortunately i get now a lot of
> > 'illegal input
> > chartacter 13 in <file>.
> >
> > I understand, that this is because of Windows (Dos) cr-lf
> > handling of
> > text-files, but the waring i get affects files of the tmac.m
> > macro. Is
> > there a work-around for this problem besides of converting
> > the tmac-text
> > (macro) files to unix cenvention?
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Johann
> >
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