From: fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: Why text=binary mounts 12 Jan 1998 01:20:35 -0800 Message-ID: <19980112182843.41672.cygnus.gnu-win32@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <01BD1C69.BBA294A0.tiberius@braemarinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Tomas Fasth Cc: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "Gary R. Van Sickle" On 09-Jan-1998, Tomas Fasth wrote: > What's wrong with this solution: Do it the Unix way. A file is a file is > a file. Textual end-of-line is not a business of the i/o subsystem. In > Unix the character sequence for end-of-line ('\n' == 012 == 0x10 == > 0b00001100) > is nothing more exciting than a mutual agreement between tools that want > to share text information. How simple! That solution would be fine, if you were designing a new OS. But we're not! We're trying to be compatible with an existing OS. > Please, please, please. Do what you like, but do NOT try to break the > Unix way of computing in the GnuWin32 distribution. If you do, then > what's the point the whole project? I don't think anyone has suggested that support for binary-mode mounts should be abandoned. I would like to see *both* text-mode and binary-mode mounts supported. -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".