RE: line breaks in VC6 workspace/project files?

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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Will Sappington [mailto:wsappington@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 3:12 PM
> To: c-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: line breaks in VC6 workspace/project files?

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> I tried to build for VC6 using the same source that I built
> for Cygwin, but VC6 won't open the xerces-all.dsw.  The problem is
with
> the line breaks, the files in the tarball all have UNIX newlines, not
> DOS CR/LF's.  
> 
> I'm thinking the .zip format of the source will probably be DOS line
> breaks, but I'd rather not have 2 different installations of the same
> source.  I'm wondering if I can just go through all the dsp/dsw files
> and convert them to CR/LF (any gotcha's there?) or should I d/l the
zip
> file and build for VC6 in a completely separate source tree.  
> 
> In the meantime I'm going to go ahead and try converting the ds? files
> and see what that gets me.
> 
> TIA for any help,
> 
> -will

FYI, this is resolved.  I ran a script using "find" and "unix2dos" to
convert the line breaks in all the .ds? files and then opened the
"xerces-all" workspace and built everything successfully in VC++ from
the tarballed source.

-will