On 22 September 2015 at 07:30, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote: > Follow-up Comment #1, bug #46018 (project texinfo): > > Your Texinfo source has DOS-style CRLF EOLs. So any text produced by texi2any > has Unix-style EOLs, but text copied verbatim from your source has DOS EOLs. > Remove the CR characters from your Texinfo source, and the problem will likely > go away. > > In general, when using MSYS programs, you need to work with text files that > have Unix EOLs, because MSYS programs use binary I/O which reads and writes CR > characters without any conversions.
I believe there was some DOS or Windows system where texi2any would open files in a mode where ends of lines would be read or written with MS-DOS style EOL's (writing Info files was an exception); evidently MSYS wasn't it.
