I had half and half expected that the tar utility would do it, when creating the .tar(.gz) file

I'm thinking that when the tar utility creates the archive it should do nothing other than pack the files it has been given ... and that gzip should do nothing other than gzip the archive. (Why should the tar utility convert to nix endings when, for all it knows, the tarball is never going to be unpacked onto a nix machine anyway ?)The clever bit needs to happen when the archive is unpacked - at which point the tar utility looks at the line endings and adjusts them as needed (iff needed).

Personally, on Win32, I make sure that the tar utility leaves the line endings as they are - that way I don't have to worry about the tar utility amending files that it shouldn't. (I have been bitten by this.) Worst case scenario (for me) is that I then have to view the text files in Wordpad (rather than Notepad) to have them dispayed in a sane fashion.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^3: make dist (ExtUtils::MakeMaker) on Windows stores text files with DOS line endings in .tar.gz archive by syphilis
in thread make dist (ExtUtils::MakeMaker) on Windows stores text files with DOS line endings in .tar.gz archive by bart

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