On 7 Sep, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Oh well, why are you still using textmode? We should drop this choice from > setup.exe entirely.
The logic went: 1) Under Windows, most of the programs we use are native Windows ones, so we choose DOS style line endings during Cygwin install. 2) I assume that Unix text processing programs like sed, awk, troff, etc. prefer to see LF rather than CR-LF. I've just now re-read http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-textbinary.html. (I can't begin to imagine how much pain this CR/LF issue must cause you guys!) Did you give the advice above because basically all the Cygwin programs that treat lines as records, now open the file in text mode; and all other Cygwin programs open files in binary mode? (Including "file.exe", now, thank you!) The URL above may need an update, then? (BTW, there's a reference in the URL to "points a-e" which should be "points 1-5" to agree with the rest of the text). > file doesn't cope with textmode right now. I'll fix it to use always > binmode. Thanks very much for that, Corinna. Regards, luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/