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Re: Which of cygwin32's design goals does ascii file conversion fulfil?
- To: David Fox <dsfox at cogsci dot ucsd dot edu>, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Which of cygwin32's design goals does ascii file conversion fulfil?
- From: Larry Hall <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 12:21:30 -0400
- References: <Benjamin Riefenstahl's message of "Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:02:23 +0200">
At 12:51 PM 10/23/98 -0700, David Fox wrote:
>As I have noted before, there are two types of cygwin32 users, those
>who are trying to make their Windows box feel more Unixy, and those
>who are porting Unix code to Windows. It seems to me that neither of
>these groups has any need for DOS ``text mode'' conversion (where
>lines are terminated by CR-LF.) Why not make binary mode the one and
>only default once and for all?
>
>There's probably a good reason that I'm not aware of...
>--
>David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
>UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
People who use Notepad will be bummed. I'll leave it to you to determine
whether or not this is a good enough reason to support Windows text mode
by default...
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. (781) 239-1053
8 Grove Street (781) 239-1655 - FAX
Wellesley, MA 02482-7797 http://www.rfk.com
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