changing text file type from DOS to unix?

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Anoop Ghanwani wrote:

> I am trying to install a package that needs the text
> file type to be unix, but have previously installed
> Cygwin with the file type of DOS.
>
> Is it possible to change the text file type from DOS to
> unix without doing a reinstall of Cygwin?  When I
> go through setup, if I select the file type as "unix"
> but don't select any new packages, it doesn't do
> anything.
>
> Thanks,
> -Anoop

eval "`mount -m | grep -i cygwin | sed 's/-t/-b/'`"
	Igor
-- 
				http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
      |\      _,,,---,,_		pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_		igor@watson.ibm.com
     |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'		Igor Pechtchanski
    '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL	a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!

Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk!
  -- /usr/games/fortune


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