Why text=binary mounts

[Guy Gascoigne - Piggford]

At 11:55 PM 1/15/98 -0700, Jeffrey C. Fried wrote:
>That is, if we can agree that certain tools are always applied solely to
>text, then automatic conversion of the native EOL to the single '\n'
>character is the solution which will make these tools work in any
>environment.  If we don't agree, then we must always construct 'text' files
>according to the UNIX description of a text file when using the gnuwin32
>tools and so it is not easy to use tools of mixed origin on a non-UNIX
>system (for example emacs under NT will rewrite files with CRLF while bash
>will need these files in LF format).  I prefer to use the native format so
>that i don't have to remember which tools produce which results and when i
>have to convert between the two formats.

Good points, I agree with them completely.

Guy


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Guy Gascoigne - Piggford (ggp@informix.com)
Software Engineer, Informix Software, Inc. (Portland, Oregon)

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