Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Shankar Unni Subject: Re: Suggestion: /etc/hosts Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:33:47 -0700 Lines: 14 Message-ID: <3D7E1EEB.4050604@cotagesoft.com> References: <3D7C6D5F.A9D4CCC5@pajhome.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-63-193-31-178.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031675734 31785 63.193.31.178 (10 Sep 2002 16:35:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 16:35:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en news@garydjones.mailshell.com wrote: > [...] (some lines with DOS-endings and some with *n*x-endings). > I doubt Cygwin would have a problem with that, but I don't > really want to test what Windows would do. Doesn't seem to faze Windows XP, anyway. I converted the file to unix line endings and threw in a few ^Ms here and there. Worked fine. Can't answer for old stacks like Win95 and Win98, but I suspect they would also be able to handle this.. -- Shankar. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/