diff --git a/cs/libconsh/cg.cpp b/cs/libconsh/cg.cpp
index 16965ed1..20e675d0 100644
--- a/cs/libconsh/cg.cpp
+++ b/cs/libconsh/cg.cpp
@@ -3888,6 +3888,10 @@ bool CG::readDict(std::string file, std::vector<std::filesystem::path> kbfiles)
 	allDictStream_.open(file, std::ios::in);
 
 	while (std::getline(allDictStream_, line)) {
+		// A CRLF file (eg a Windows checkout) read on Linux/macOS keeps
+		// the '\r', which would end up in the last word or value.
+		if (!line.empty() && line.back() == '\r')
+			line.pop_back();
 		_TCHAR *buf = line.data();
 		lineCount++;
 		// Blank out /* ... */ before the line lexer sees it. A comment-only
@@ -4262,6 +4266,11 @@ bool CG::readKBB(std::string file) {
 	bool inBlock = false;				// Open "/*" carried between lines.
 
 	while (std::getline(streamer, line)) {
+		// A CRLF file (eg a Windows checkout) read on Linux/macOS keeps
+		// the '\r': the concept on every line was then named "verbs\r"
+		// and findconcept("verbs") came back null, with no error.
+		if (!line.empty() && line.back() == '\r')
+			line.pop_back();
 		_TCHAR *buf = line.data();
 		// Blank out /* ... */ before the line lexer sees it.	// 07/31/26 DD.
 		// Only a line the stripper actually touched is dropped when it comes
@@ -5194,6 +5203,9 @@ int32_t length2 = strp.length();
 bool done = false;
 
 while (allDictStream_.getline(buf, MAXMSG) && !done) {
+	size_t blen = strlen(buf);
+	if (blen && buf[blen-1] == '\r')	// CRLF file read on Linux/macOS.
+		buf[blen-1] = '\0';
 	icu::StringPiece sp(buf);
 	const char *line = sp.data();
 	int32_t length = sp.length();
diff --git a/lite/nlp.cpp b/lite/nlp.cpp
index c55e9244..007f3044 100644
--- a/lite/nlp.cpp
+++ b/lite/nlp.cpp
@@ -460,8 +460,14 @@ _TCHAR errout[MAXMSG];															// 03/22/99 AM.
 _TCHAR *logdirname = _T("logs");													// 05/19/01 AM.
 _TCHAR logdir[MAXSTR];															// 05/19/01 AM.
 _stprintf(logdir, _T("%s%c%s"), appdir,DIR_CH,logdirname);				// 05/19/01 AM.
-if (!dir_exists(logdir))													// 05/19/01 AM.
-	make_dir(logdir);															// 05/19/01 AM.
+// std::filesystem, not dir_exists()/make_dir(): both are no-ops on
+// Linux/macOS (see NLP-ENGINE-527 below), so logs/ was never made there
+// and make_ana.log, cgerr.log and file.log silently failed to open. A
+// failed analyzer build then left no diagnostics at all off Windows.
+{
+std::error_code ec;
+std::filesystem::create_directory(logdir, ec);
+}
 
 
 // SOME GLOBAL INITS.														// 09/27/00 AM.
diff --git a/nlp/main.cpp b/nlp/main.cpp
index d45a2794..c6236e5b 100644
--- a/nlp/main.cpp
+++ b/nlp/main.cpp
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ All rights reserved.
 
 #include <vector>
 
-#define NLP_ENGINE_VERSION "4.2.51"
+#define NLP_ENGINE_VERSION "4.2.52"
 
 bool cmdReadArgs(int, _TCHAR *argv[], _TCHAR *&, _TCHAR *&, _TCHAR *&, _TCHAR *&, bool &, bool &, bool &, bool &, bool &, bool &, int &, bool &, bool &, _TCHAR *&, double &, _TCHAR *&);
 void cmdHelpargs(_TCHAR *);