From: darren@netschool.co.jp (Darren Cook) Subject: Re: Which of cygwin32's design goals does ascii file conversion fulfil? 25 Oct 1998 11:05:55 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19981025183305.0098f1e0.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail.netschool.co.jp> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com >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 I'm trying mingw to see if it's a viable alternative to Visual C++. >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? The main reason is writing a program that has to read or write files that have to be used on Windows. Actually I see you're just referring to what the default should be. I always explicitly define "b" or "t", but I wonder how much existing code would break if the default changed? Darren - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".