On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I mean it!
Mean, eh? :-) > I don't want to drop textmode support from Cygwin(*), You mean, not just yet? > but why do we still give the user the choice in the first place? If the > user can't choose textmode in the base installation, we will have a lot > more sane binmode installations in future and people will use textmode > only if they (think they) know what they are doing. My first response was "Well, if you're prepared to deal with people saying <<I created a file in Cygwin, and opened it in Notepad, and now it looks like one big line>>, go for it"... Then I realized it's not true for all programs (e.g., "vi" doesn't do that), but let's review some of the possible complaints, so that we're prepared to handle them. > At least, it's about time to publish the latest setup version with > the improved interface which very explicit recommends UNIX mode. Yes, definitely. It's been time for a while. There were some outstanding issues -- IIRC, at least one has been fixed. Brian, what do you say? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA