What does Dos mode vs unix mode mean when you install cygwin

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:43:14PM -0700, Tim Prince wrote:
> Entirely a matter of preference, and what the non-cygwin apps you intend
> to use prefer.  For me, the hardest part of "unix" files is remembering
> to always ftp "binary" and not to attach files to Windows e-mail unless
> they are suffixed .doc or converted.  More and more apps can deal with
> either kind of file.

UNIX = binary = faster read/write (no CR/LF conversion needed)

The Cygwin ftp from the inetd package should use binary
as default when connecting to a UNIX system.

Corinna

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