From: mh@mike.franken.de (Michael Hirmke) Subject: Re: Why text=binary mounts (Re: Gnu-win32 (b18), coolview and NTE 10 Jan 1998 08:05:52 -0800 Message-ID: <6lcwtm-$pfB.cygnus.gnu-win32@mike.franken.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc) [lhall@rfk.com] wrote: [...] >Not necessarily. Various programs do this, including vim and, I think, >NTEmacs. > >>How do the MS-land programs that understand both line terminations work? >>They probably just accept either on input, then do \r\n on output, right? > >Precisely. Nope, vim for example reads files in "textmode" or "notextmode" and also writes them in the same manner. This is true for the Cygnus compiled vim and for the VC++ compiled one under Windows. Otherwise you would destroy all your Unix style line breaks, when reading and writing a file with it. > > >Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke | Telefon +49 (911) 557999 Georg-Strobel-Strasse 81 | FAX +49 (911) 557664 90489 Nuernberg | E-Mail mailto:mh@mike.franken.de | WWW http://minimike.franken.de/ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".