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RE: file not working on executables?
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 04:35:36 -0500
- Subject: RE: file not working on executables?
[snip]
> > Again, I 100% share the notion that text mounts should not
> be necessary.
> > But when even such basic apps as tar get this wrong, I simply don't
> > see how anybody can realistically entertain the idea that
> eliminating
> > them will somehow solve any problems.
>
> You're a lucky guy that you don't have problems with textmode
> mounts
Well, yeah I guess, but again, what are these problems of which you speak?
> but from my point of view, CRLF lineendings are just
> insane and dealing with them in libraries and applications is
> a real PITA.
>
There's an old saying where I come from: "People in Hell want icewater."
Sure it's a PITA; welcome to Computer Science.
> Dunno how you work, but I for one use native Win apps only if
> it's totally unavoidable. I certainly don't use a native
> Win32 editor as long as I have vim and I certainly don't
> create textfiles with CRLF lineendings in them. If I get
> those files, my first action is to convert them to LF.
>
> However, that's getting cygwin-talk fodder. So please move
> any further discussion there. Reply-To set accordingly.
>
(Oops, apparently not! ;-))
Well, any LF/CRLF religious debate perhaps belongs there. But religious
issues aside, the change you're proposing is a major change to long-standing
Cygwin functionality that would affect a large number of users. Such
discussion most certainly belongs on cygwin@.
>
> Corinna
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
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