Re: [Mingw-users] EOL conversion when copying from network shares

["Timothy Madden" <terminatorul@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Earnie Boyd <earnie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Quoting Timothy Madden <terminatorul@xxxxxxxxx>:

>
> It must be that the line endings are converted, because a text compare will
> find no differences, only the binary compare will show differences. The
> problem is it happens even with zip files, and it does not happen with some
> of the text files. If I copy from the local file system things are ok. I
> have Windows XP at work and if I use Copy/Paste in Windows Explorer than the
> resulting copy is ok.
>

Old bug fixed in the 1.0.11 Technology Preview release.  You can grab
the MSYS-1.0.11-20071204.tar.bz2 file and replace the msys-1.0.dll file
in you /bin directory.  You'll need to have all sessions of MSYS closed
to do the copy of the dll.

Earnie

Thank you
It worked. Beyond Compare says now  18958 files match exactly :)

Timothy Madden,
Romania

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