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From: budney AT daxus DOT com (Len Budney)
Subject: Re: Bash, history file, and Tcl
20 Jan 1997 08:53:52 -0800 :
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In-Reply-To: <01BC0619.8E77DBA0@scottsdale-ts4-22.goodnet.com> (message from
Mikey on Sun, 19 Jan 1997 14: 42:01 -0700)
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   From: Mikey <jeffdb AT netzone DOT com>
   Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 14:42:01 -0700

	One way to eliminate most (possibly all) CR/LF problems
   is to mount with the -b option, I don't know why this isn't the
   default.
	Unfortunatly, after you do this you will have to reinstall from =
   scratch, but once you do bash history works properly, (after deleting or =
   converting the .bash_history file) ncurses compiles out of the box =
   (dosen't quite work right because of some missing capabilities, but I'm =
   working on it), same with most GNU tools that have a configure script.
	Try it, after the initial pain, it's a BIG win.


Thanks for the input!  I actually tried changing the mounting of C: to
binary, but didn't know it would require a "reinstall from scratch",
which is probably why the results were so discouraging.

One question remains, however--does mounting "C:" in binary mode break
non-GNU-Win32 programs?  In particular, I use NTemacs which seems to 
insist on handling files in text mode.  Did I miss something that avoids
the problem?

Len.

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