[CF-Devel] Patch: collect_images.pl

Fri Nov 28 15:24:16 CST 2003

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 09:51:39PM +0100, Nicolas Weeger wrote:
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      >The basic problem is that Windows differentiates between text files

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      >(translate between \n and \r\n) and binary files, whereas UNIX doesn't. So

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      >"text mode" works just fine on binary files in UNIX, but breaks horribly

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      >under Windows (anything resembling \r\n gets mangled on read, and all \n 

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      >gets mangled on write). Perl uses text mode by default, which is fine for

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      >UNIX, but breaks on Windows when you manipulate binary files.

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      Ok, but does forcing binary mode, as my patch does, break under UNIX?

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      Besides, for crossfire.[01] containing the whole PNGs, it's just weird to 

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      use TEXT mode, and not binary mode, even if it happens to work under

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      UNIX :)

     [snip]

As I said, under UNIX there is no difference at all between text and
binary mode, so it doesn't break anything.

T

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The way software works is not the same as the way it's *supposed* to work.

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