From: lhall@rfk.com (Larry Hall) Subject: Re: Which of cygwin32's design goals does ascii file conversion fulfil? 24 Oct 1998 18:10:10 -0700 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981024122130.00aac100.cygnus.gnu-win32@pop.ma.ultranet.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: David Fox , gnu-win32@cygnus.com At 12:51 PM 10/23/98 -0700, David Fox wrote: >As I have noted before, there are two types of cygwin32 users, those >who are trying to make their Windows box feel more Unixy, and those >who are porting Unix code to Windows. It seems to me that neither of >these groups has any need for DOS ``text mode'' conversion (where >lines are terminated by CR-LF.) Why not make binary mode the one and >only default once and for all? > >There's probably a good reason that I'm not aware of... >-- >David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD >UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU People who use Notepad will be bummed. I'll leave it to you to determine whether or not this is a good enough reason to support Windows text mode by default... Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (781) 239-1053 8 Grove Street (781) 239-1655 - FAX Wellesley, MA 02482-7797 http://www.rfk.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".