Re: XEmacs 21.5.24 Cannot load project file to VS .NET

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Robinows(a)aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 1/30/2006 4:50:23 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > rrankin1424-xemacs(a)yahoo.com writes: > >> I tried to load the .dsp (VC6 project file) cannot be load onto my VS .NET >> Version 7.1.3088 with .NET Framework 1.1 Version 1.1.4322 SP1 >> >> I was told that the .dsp was corrupted, but I look through it and find the >> text file seems to be alright >> >> Any suggestion for me to solve this? > > I don't understand why you don't understand. There's a problem with a file > in the XEmacs distribution. Why would you ask on an MS list? > > In any case, the answer to the original poster's question: > xemacs.dsp is missing the carriage returns required by Visual Studio. > VS can compile source files with Unix line endings but the project files > need to be DOSish. > Convert the line endings and things should work fine. > > > I've tried that, but that's too complicated and I don't know how to write a bash shell script to perform the LF -> CR LF conversion (in cygwin) the script has to: 1. check every files in the compilation directory trees a. to see if it is a text file or a binary file (using "file"?) 2. if it is a text file, performance a LF -> CR LF conversion (but by what program? "sed"?)