First Cygwin Installation

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 04:19 PM 1/4/2001, David M. Karr wrote:
> >>>>> "DJ" == DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com> writes:
>
>   >> Will any version work as a first time install or
>   >> do I have to have something else ??
>
>   DJ> For a first-time install, go to http://cygwin.com/ and click on the
>   DJ> "Install Cygwin Now" icon.  The only choices you should have to make
>   DJ> are (0) that you want to install from the internet, (1) where to
>   DJ> install it on your machine, and (2) whether to use IE5, a direct
>   DJ> connection, or a proxy to access the internet.
>
>Note that the "Default text file type" might be important, depending
>on what you're using this for.  It will default to "Unix", as opposed
>to "DOS".  If you have non-cygwin programs that expect DOS line
>endings, and they might be reading files you would create while using
>Cygwin, then they might not work properly if you set it to "Unix".
>Just make sure you understand the choice.
>
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>===================================================================
>David M. Karr     ; w:(425)487-8312     ; TCSI & Best Consulting
>dkarr@tcsi.com    ; Java/Unix/XML/C++/X ; BrainBench CJ12P (#12004)



An example list of applications that have some trouble reading files with
only UNIX line endings (newline only) include notepad, just about any old
DOS (and I mean DOS, not Windows) program, and VC++ if the file in question 
will also be edited by the class wizard.  With the exception of the VC++ 
issue, which is rather obscure, there's a solution to each of the other 
problems (i.e. replace them with programs that understand UNIX style line 
endings - there's lots of good alternatives here).  Every other Windows 
program I've used can read UNIX line endings just fine, because the underlying 
Win32 API call for accessing files supports reading newline-only line endings. 
I'm sure there are some other utility programs out there that still trip over 
UNIX line endings too but in general, this is pretty rare.



Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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