From: paul.rogers@... (Paul)
Date: 2004-03-17T09:39:33+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.8.1/cygwin: Writing text files (dos mode) broken?

PeJaMa@web.de (Marcus Heyking) wrote in message news:<2b3b40bb.0403160853.639303b7@posting.google.com>...
> I was recently running some tests before switching to ruby 1.8.1 on cygwin. I
> found one problem that currently keeps me from installing ruby 1.8.1:
> 
> When writing text files they end up as unix files even though I explicitly
> told setup.exe to use dos mode: 
> 
> f = File.new("test.txt","w")
> f.puts("Where \n is the CR?")
> f.close
> 
> Running above script on ruby 1.8.1 will create test.txt with only 0x0a (LF) 
> as line delimiter. When using ruby 1.6.8 this correctly creates a dos-like 
> text file (CR+LF)
> 
> My ruby app (a build engine) creates c/cpp headers and resource files to be 
> used by cl.exe and friends - and some of them won't accept unix style files.
> 
> Maybe someone could verify/comment on that? Did I miss something here? IMHO 
> line ending conversion should still be transparent to ruby scripts?
> 
> ps. Actually I think this is caused by io.c:line 4087 where cygwin_internal()
> is used to unconditionally set file IO to binmode!?


when installing cygwin you get the option to select the file type -
unix or msdos - could you have set this and now ruby is correctly
creating unix style files?