Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> writes: > > On 03/18/2011 10:00 AM, ralf wrote: > > > > During setup of cygwin you could choose between UNIX ending und DOS ending. > > Which was a bug in the GUI for offering it in the first place, because > it basically set the text-mode mount flag on every single directory, > including /bin, which is counterproductive. > > But you didn't need the setup.exe radio button to get the same effect, > instead, just change your mounts manually (/etc/fstab) to set the > text-mode mount flag on the subset of directories where it matters to you. >
In releases with this radio button files with windows filenames were opened as text-files like files which were on a filesystem with text-mode mount flag. Now they are always opened as binary files. I have no chance to open a file with windows-filename as text-file. This "feature" (open-mode of files with windows-filenames) has been lost, or do I misunderstand something? > > > And how can I get bash to write always CR? Adding \r to each echo,cat,awk? > > Only finding the places where this is necessary will take weeks. > > That's why we don't recommend text-mode mounts for cygwin-owned > directories. dos2unix can also do some smart conversions (it has smarts > to avoid corrupting binary files while still converting text files). > So your advice is to recode all scipts. Is that right? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple