Subject: Re: [Bug] Very Minor text display BUG in Windows installer and docs
From: Thomas Briggs (tom@sane.com)
Date: Wed Feb 07 2001 - 08:14:58 CST
I believe that this problem is due to problems I was having with CygWin
(binmode vs. textmode) on the machine on which the Win32 nightly builds are
generated. The latest installer should be fine.
-Tom
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From: "Midnight Bomber" <horkana@tcd.ie>
To: "AbiWord-dev" <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 1:42 PM
Subject: [Bug] Very Minor text display BUG in Windows installer and docs
> Subject: Very Minor text display BUG in Windows installer
>
> (im working on Win2000 but i think this happened to me on win98 too)
>
> ive just downloaded another nightly build (Abiword Personal) and the
> text in the installer does not seem to have the "correctly" weird line
> breaks required by windows or maybe its the tab character (the text does
> not wrap to the window and you have to scroll sideways to read it).
> Lots of symbols that look like "|" though.
>
> also the Copyright.txt file included with the binary does not display
> correctly in Notepad.
> (you could just rename it to *.wri and it will open up in wordpad which
> can correctly display it)
> Notepad has an odd way of dealing with line breaks*
>
> I think this problem goes back a few different builds so aplogies if its
> already been reported (i did a cursory search through bugzilla) amd if
> it has not been reported i wish i'd reported it sooner.
>
>
> * to get a Notepad compatible line break in Java i did this:
> // print '\n'
> fWriter1.write(13);
> fWriter1.write(10);
>
> which if i recall writes the 2 specific raw ascii values Notepad
> understands as a line break. Hope that helps.
>
> --
> ~
> |v|
> // \\
> /( )\
> ^`~'^
>
>
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