Re: [Groff] win32 experiences?

[Jorgen Grahn]

On Wed Oct 27 18:07:15 2004, address@hidden wrote:
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> It is not groff (that is, troff and the post processors) that have 
> problems with CRLF files. Rather, it is some of the preprocessors. E.g., 
> tbl dies unceremoniously if given a CRLF file. Perhaps it should be 
> considered a bug: some parts of groff are able to handle EOL 
> transparently, while other parts don't.
> 
> A Cygwin specific solution is to have your working space in a text 
> mount, which will make Cygwin translate EOLs from DOS to UNIX and back 
> transparently (as in behind your back, will kill binary object files, so 
> don't compile anything under such conditions). May or may not work, YMMV.

That is probably what I did, and why it seemed to work out for me. I used
Cygwin's tbl at work for a while (to format something that was all but
unreadable with our "normal" Windows tools).

/Jörgen

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