On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > 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.
I also meant to add that if we had an "Advanced Settings" pane in setup, the mount mode setting would go in there. > 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