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Re: RPM for Cygwin32 B19
Marcus Brown <Brown@sw.mke.etn.com> writes:
> Also, when executing rpm, I recieve the error even when running the
> program with no arguments. It does the same when executing it with "-v
> -v -v" or any arbitrary argument. Does rpm usually say "Re-execing
> rpm"?
>
>
> Marcus
>
> Note: The line that rpm referred to (rpmrc:36) is as follows:
>
> arch_canon: i986: i986 1
>
> I opened this file once before in NT's brain dead edit.exe, which does
> not preserve tabs, could this have something to do with it?
You might see this error if you edited your rpmrc and saved it in
so-called ``ASCII mode'', with a control-M before every control-J.
This is the norm in the MS-DOS world. Thanks to anonymous for
pointing out this possibility.
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David Fox http://www.cat.nyu.edu/fox xoF divaD
NYU Media Research Lab fox@cat.nyu.edu baL hcraeseR aideM UYN
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