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Re: Why text=binary mounts (Re: Gnu-win32 (b18), coolview and NTE
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- Subject: Re: Why text=binary mounts (Re: Gnu-win32 (b18), coolview and NTE
- From: mh at mike dot franken dot de (Michael Hirmke)
- Date: 10 Jan 1998 15:05:00 +0100
- Organization: Kommunikationsnetz Franken e.V. (Nuernberg)
Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc) [lhall@rfk.com] wrote:
[...]
>Not necessarily. Various programs do this, including vim and, I think,
>NTEmacs.
>
>>How do the MS-land programs that understand both line terminations work?
>>They probably just accept either on input, then do \r\n on output, right?
>
>Precisely.
Nope, vim for example reads files in "textmode" or "notextmode" and
also writes them in the same manner. This is true for the Cygnus
compiled vim and for the VC++ compiled one under Windows.
Otherwise you would destroy all your Unix style line breaks, when
reading and writing a file with it.
>
>
>Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
Bye.
Michael.
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