Re: New versions of bzip2 and patch?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 12:22:09AM +0100, Michael Ring wrote:
>I only removed a stupid (imho) usage of environment-variables from patch
>which caused it to convert textfiles in binmounts to cr/lf files.
>automode.o sounds as if it were useable for patch but right now I think
>it should be kept as it is because it has prooven to work 'as is'.
>
>Hmm... thinking about it agauin, what about this theory:
>
>If I understand automode correctly a file on a textmount would be
>converted to a 'unix'-style file internally and if saved in binmode
>there would be no more cr/lf in the file; theory right ???

Right.

cgf