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Re: Why text=binary mounts


On 09-Jan-1998, Tomas Fasth <tomas.fasth@twinspot.net> wrote:
> What's wrong with this solution: Do it the Unix way. A file is a file is
> a file. Textual end-of-line is not a business of the i/o subsystem. In
> Unix the character sequence for end-of-line ('\n' == 012 == 0x10 ==
> 0b00001100)
> is nothing more exciting than a mutual agreement between tools that want
> to share text information. How simple!

That solution would be fine, if you were designing a new OS.
But we're not!  We're trying to be compatible with an existing OS.

> Please, please, please. Do what you like, but do NOT try to break the
> Unix way of computing in the GnuWin32 distribution. If you do, then
> what's the point the whole project?

I don't think anyone has suggested that support for binary-mode mounts
should be abandoned.  I would like to see *both* text-mode and binary-mode
mounts supported.

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