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Re: Which of cygwin32's design goals does ascii file conversion fulfil?
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- Subject: Re: Which of cygwin32's design goals does ascii file conversion fulfil?
- From: Darren Cook <darren at netschool dot co dot jp>
- Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 18:33:05
- References: <Benjamin Riefenstahl's message of "Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:02:23 +0200">
>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
I'm trying mingw to see if it's a viable alternative to Visual C++.
>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?
The main reason is writing a program that has to read or write files that
have to be used on Windows.
Actually I see you're just referring to what the default should be. I
always explicitly define "b" or "t", but I wonder how much existing code
would break if the default changed?
Darren
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