[Coco] Toolshed on Windows - bug affecting ftell()

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Christian Lesage <hyperfrog at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This might not be the place for such a request, but I need some help using
>> CVS and Sourceforge.
>>
>> There is a bug in the Windows C runtime library that causes ar2.exe to fail
>> with a lot of archives. The problem lies with ftell() not working properly
>> when the file to be processed hasn't been explicitly opened in binary mode.
>> I've corrected the source code, but I don't know how to put the files back
>> on Sourceforge. Could someone help me doing that?
>>
>
> Boisy and Tim Linder are the maintainers so if you send the changed
> files to them, they can commit to the CVS.
>

on closer inspection, it looks like robert gault and myself are also
able to commit, send them to me if you want and I'll get them in.

>> BTW, I manually downloaded each source file that ar2 is comprised of. There
>> must be a better and faster way to do that! If I could download the whole
>> source tree, I would check if the bug affects the other tools in Toolshed.
>>
>
> you can grab the entire source tree with the command:
>
> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous at toolshed.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/toolshed
> co -P toolshed
>
> That will work in Cygwin.  Not sure if there is a CLI cvs for straight
> windows. In the GUI world, you can use Tortise CVS and do essentially
> the same thing.
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Christian
>>
>>
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