Re: Please confirm whether or not image.dem works on Windows

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Wednesday 21 June 2006 01:45 pm, Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker wrote:
> Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 June 2006 08:29 am, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> >> I'm fairly certain that this bug has to do with the fact that in
> >> Windows, with the CR/LF, the following may be dogdy in some way:
> >>
> >>     if (!i_line) {i_line =3D ASCII_PER_LINE; *encoded_image_ptr++ =3D
> >> '\n';}
>
> Only if the file was opened in the wrong mode.  I'm reasonably sure
> gnuplot doesn't get this so spectactularly wrong.
>
> The most likely explanation is that the binary data files got mangled
> on the way from CVS to Mojca's Windows box, because some tool though
> it had to convert Unix to Microsoft style linebreaks (cygwin CVS to a
> text-mode mounted file system, or similar).

Binary files in cvs are supposed to be tagged with a special=20
marker so the download to Windows is performed correctly.
Was this done for bluetux.rgb?   (And how does one check this?)


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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA