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RE: nobinmode


>"Mark B. Elrod" wrote:
>> >> 
>> thanks for the great site. so i am having a problem with the binmode
>> stuff under win32 with cygwin. specifically with cvs.
>> 
>> from within a win32 command prompt cvs is downloading the files with
>> only \n line endings. this is ok for normal text files but the MS Visual
>> C++project files unfortunately expect \r\n or they are invalid. Setting
>> CYGWIN=nobinmode causes cvs to error though. Any clue what I 
>should do?

My workaround for this is to use cvs on a 'text' mounted drive for project
files that want MSDOS line endings and a 'binary' mounted drive for unix
projects.

This seems to work quite well for me :-)

Cheers

Norman Vine

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