Which of cygwin32's design goals does ascii file conversion fulfil?

[David Fox]

As I have noted before, there are two types of cygwin32 users, those
who are trying to make their Windows box feel more Unixy, and those
who are porting Unix code to Windows.  It seems to me that neither of
these groups has any need for DOS ``text mode'' conversion (where
lines are terminated by CR-LF.)  Why not make binary mode the one and
only default once and for all?

There's probably a good reason that I'm not aware of...
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