Re: [bug #46018] texi2any makes inconsistent EOL style

[Gavin Smith]

On 22 September 2015 at 07:30, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> 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.