RE: line endings, file path names

2006-08-07 Thread Peter Ring
AIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Joachim Achtzehnter > Sent: 3. august 2006 23:36 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: line endings, file path names > > > Hi Corinna, > > You wrote: > > > So, since millions of users have DOS and Mac lineending > files,

Re: line endings, file path names

2006-08-03 Thread Joachim Achtzehnter
Hi Corinna, You wrote: So, since millions of users have DOS and Mac lineending files, every system in the world has to support them? I'm not suggesting that any system "has to" do anything, as the author or funder of a system you can decide what you want it to do. I'm trying to persuade you t

Re: line endings, file path names (was: Updated: sed-4.1.5-2)

2006-08-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 3 11:43, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >and I'm seriously contemplating (for years) to just remove textmode > >from Cygwin. > > This is where I disagree completely. From "CRLF was a bad idea" does not > follow "hence we should not support it". This would just be s

line endings, file path names (was: Updated: sed-4.1.5-2)

2006-08-03 Thread Joachim Achtzehnter
Corinna Vinschen wrote: [JA wrote:] Thank you very much for this fix. It will make life easier for all of us who struggle with a mix of native and Cygwin tools. It is very much appreciated that as far as line endings are concerned the attitude taken by Cygwin developers is not "use POSIX line en