VI and DOS Mode

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 03:36 PM 3/29/2002, Gaurav Khanna wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I installed the cygwin bash shell along with the VIM editor on windows.
>Now the problem is that it opens up the files in UNIX mode and not in
>DOS mode. And it saves that way too. I have tried reinstalling the whole
>thing including the vim editor and specifying DOS as the default file
>type but to no avail. What am I missing? 
>Initially I had specified UNIX as the default type but since then I have
>done a lot of I installations trying to get DOS as the default.
>Please help.


Sorry, I don't have the problem here, even with binary mount points.  
Setting fileformat=dos allows me to read and write files in DOS mode 
whenever I want with vim.  Perhaps you need to do a little more debugging
on your end.



Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
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