Re: Can I build gnuwin32-patch with Visual Studio 6/7/or 8, and if yes, how?

From: "Lennart Borgman"

>I think it would be very nice if patch.exe could be made to handle
> different line endings in a transparent way. After all patch.exe is in
> those cases used to handle lines and any human can see what has to be
> done. Why should not patch.exe do the right thing then?
>
I suspect it has something to do with the use of tell and seek, which behave 
in a somewhat peculiar way in that they treat a binary file sometimes as if 
it were a text file. But I've never found the exact cause of the problem nor 
a way to solve it.

Kees Zeelenberg


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