you can use setup.exe to change back from textmode to binmode, but the problem is, that most of the programs won't be abled to read the text-files they've writte in textmode.I just installed KDE-cygwin, and I haven't gotten it start properly. Based on the errors I'm getting and the FAQs I've read, the suggestion was to make sure the paths are mounted in binmode, which involves changing a registry key. Since I'd prefer not to do that, will this patch work for me as well?
Christopher Faylor always suggests linking with binmode.o - and i would recomm that too, for the KDE-cygwin project. i don't know, why they don't do it - perhaps because binmode.o is too unknown yet.
but to request, that the user runs cygwin in binmode is not always possible, because migrating back from text- to binmode takes much time (you have to convert every text-file)
