Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 01:14:37PM -0700, Wilks, Dan wrote: > >cgf wrote: > >>I really am getting a bad feeling that, rather than FIXING THE SCRIPTS, > >>everyone is reverting to using text mode mounts which are not what we > >>generally recommend. > > ... > > If you want to continue to use Cygwin tools, you really should > investigate converting the generated scripts. ... > ... > People who have not been entirely clear on > what Cygwin is supposed to be or are not willing/able to adapt might be > left behind by this and other similar changes. > > cgf > > I am another who has been bitten by this change to the behaviour of Cygwin. Obviously I am one who is being "left behind". What platform is Cygwin written to run on? How would the Unix community react if someone ported a really nifty tool from the DOS/Windows world to Unix, but its data or script files had to have CR/LF endings for it to work? Ken. -- 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/