text vs binary in setup.exe

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Tue Jul 18 12:26:00 GMT 2000


On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 08:48:10AM -1000, Paul Wessel wrote:
>I was unable to find information about the text/binary/system/user radio
>buttons
>in setup.exe.  I installed by selecting the binary option, with the
>result that bash commands like
>
>value=`cat file`
>
>generate variables that have trailing \r\n which cause trouble when used
>
>as arguments to gawk etc.  I assume I should check TEXT and reinstall?
>Any documentation on these options?

The 'mount' documentation at http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ should
cover this.  There is no reason to reinstall.

We also should soon be releasing a new version of bash which works around
this problem.

cgf

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