When is \n converted to \r\n? and why?

Christopher Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Thu Oct 29 18:15:00 GMT 1998


On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 06:00:29PM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>An environment variable would be better than a registry entry, since
>>it's hard to write "non-conversion" shell scripts that can be run on
>>other machines if they depend on a registry entry ...  Also some
>>scripts may need the feature turned on, others off.
>
>Actually, I'd be in favor of not having either if that meant getting
>properly ported code.  I wonder if we could get this resolved prior to
>the b20 release?

e.g., CYGWIN=binmode ?

cgf
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