From: ggp@informix.com (Guy Gascoigne - Piggford) Subject: RE: Why text=binary mounts 20 Jan 1998 09:21:35 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980119100732.01c36e98.cygnus.gnu-win32@pop.pdx.informix.com> References: <3.0.5.32.19980115235518.03bc0e40@popd.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Jeffrey C. Fried" , Richard Thomas , gnu-win32@cygnus.com At 11:55 PM 1/15/98 -0700, Jeffrey C. Fried wrote: >That is, if we can agree that certain tools are always applied solely to >text, then automatic conversion of the native EOL to the single '\n' >character is the solution which will make these tools work in any >environment. If we don't agree, then we must always construct 'text' files >according to the UNIX description of a text file when using the gnuwin32 >tools and so it is not easy to use tools of mixed origin on a non-UNIX >system (for example emacs under NT will rewrite files with CRLF while bash >will need these files in LF format). I prefer to use the native format so >that i don't have to remember which tools produce which results and when i >have to convert between the two formats. Good points, I agree with them completely. Guy -- Guy Gascoigne - Piggford (ggp@informix.com) Software Engineer, Informix Software, Inc. (Portland, Oregon) - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".