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Re: Why text=binary mounts (Re: Gnu-win32 (b18), coolview and NTEmacs)
- To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at hotmail dot com>
- Subject: Re: Why text=binary mounts (Re: Gnu-win32 (b18), coolview and NTEmacs)
- From: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 09:25:09 +1100
- Cc: sab at seanet dot com, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <19980107132827.10951.qmail@hotmail.com>
On 07-Jan-1998, Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@hotmail.com> wrote:
> From: Scott Blachowicz <sab@seanet.com>
> >So, why IS it that the coolview code requires text=binary mode mounts
> >anyways?
>
> Let me remind you that the purpose of the cygnus gnu-win32 project is to
> port UNIX code. Most of the UNIX world programs choke on the \r\n
> combination. Therefore text=binary is the easiest solution.
I think you misspelt "work-around".
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