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Re: ^M diff related problem


What is your TEMP variable set to?

What happens if you `export TEMP=/tmp'?

Cheers,
Earnie.

Chuck.Irvine@mail.sprint.com wrote:
> 
> When invoking diff in a bash shell, output gets generated with ^M
> terminated lines. This seems to cause certain diff dependent emacs
> commands, e.g. vc-resolve-conflicts, to misbehave. To illustrate:
> 
> ***********************************************
> > echo hello >> test
> > echo hello >> test2
> > echo hello >> test2
> > diff -C 2 test test2 | cat -v -
> *** test        Fri Jan 19 16:52:24 2001^M
> --- test2       Fri Jan 19 16:52:44 2001^M
> ***************^M
> *** 1 ****^M
> --- 1,2 ----^M
>   hello^M
> + hello^M
> > echo $CYGWIN
> binmode
> ************************************************
> 
> I've done some reading regarding binary vs text mode and the only
> relevant config setting I can find is setting CYGWIN to binary, which
> I've done, as shown above. After doing so, I still get the error above.
> 
> Any help with getting rid of these ^M would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Chuck
> Sprint
> 
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