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Re: AW: AW: AW: Some issues

Posted by Luigi Ballabio-2 on Jan 13, 2003; 8:04am
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Some-issues-tp10189p10198.html

At 04:28 PM 1/13/03 +0100, Jens Thiel wrote:
> > Just a thought. On my Mac at home, the port of tar I'm using
> > automatically converts Unix EOLs to Mac EOLs while extracting. Isn't
> there > a tar extractor for Windows which does the same?
>
>Winzip has "TAR file smart CR/LF conversion", which is disabled by default.
>I have in mind that this is recommended as it is not really "smart".
>
>Maybe a .zip distribution file is the better choice for Win32 users anyway.

Oh, sure. I was just trying to make life easier for you (when you try a
tarball) and for Nando (who will take the golden master and make Win32
distributions out of it). When we release, normal users will get their .zip
files all right, with the EOLs already converted.

Bye,
         Luigi

P.S. Nando, any news about the files you should modify?