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Re: Drop textmode from setup?
- From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <b dot riefenstahl at turtle-trading dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 03:12:39 +0200
- Subject: Re: Drop textmode from setup?
- References: <200509090105.j89158IH005054@blei.turtle-trading.net>
Hi all,
"Gary R. Van Sickle" writes:
> I've always seen it the opposite way: only use binary mounts if you
> know what you're doing, otherwise you'll constantly have two
> problems:
>
> - Text files created by Cygwin programs will trip up many native
> programs.
> - Text files created by native Windows programs will almost
> certainly trip up Cygwin programs.
Me too.
Eric Blake writes:
> Text mounts should only be used on directories where TEXT files (not
> binaries) are intended to be shared between native and cygwin tools.
For me, that is in *all* directories except maybe the ones that Cygwin
creates for its own use. I don't use Cygwin in isolation. If I
wanted that, I could just install Linux.
I appreciate that other people work differently and have other
preferences, of course.
Just my 2 cents,
benny