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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:24:55 +0000
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From: David Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk>
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To: Rich DeFuria <rich@belarc.com>
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Subject: toggling DOS versus UNIX line ends
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On Friday 21 Feb 03, Rich DeFuria writes:
> Hello,
> 
> I am (happily) running cygwin on a win2k box.
> 
> During installation, I chose the DOS line end option; big mistake!
> 
> Now I want to change the setting to UNIX line ends.
> 
> How do I toggle that setting?
> 
> BTW, I have read the cygwin FAQ section
> "4.3.3 How is the DOS/Unix CR/LF thing handled?"
> but that is not explored there.

"DOS" line endings correspond to the -t (text) option to mount.
"UNIX" line endings correspond to the -b (binary) option to mount.
Type "mount" to see your current mount table, and change them from
text to binary.

Regards,
David


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