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Re: When is \n converted to \r\n? and why?
- To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com, Urban Widmark <urban at svenskatest dot se>, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: When is \n converted to \r\n? and why?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 21:11:42 -0500
- Cc: noer at cygnus dot com
- References: <19981030020029.5367.rocketmail@send102.yahoomail.com>
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 06:00:29PM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>An environment variable would be better than a registry entry, since
>>it's hard to write "non-conversion" shell scripts that can be run on
>>other machines if they depend on a registry entry ... Also some
>>scripts may need the feature turned on, others off.
>
>Actually, I'd be in favor of not having either if that meant getting
>properly ported code. I wonder if we could get this resolved prior to
>the b20 release?
e.g., CYGWIN=binmode ?
cgf
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