From:	jeffdb AT netzone DOT com (Mikey)
Subject:	RE: Bash, history file, and Tcl
21 Jan 1997 20:09:09 -0800 :
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	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?

Not that I could see, in reading through the faq, and online docs


 
 

 
 
these are the utils I use to convert back and forth, just change deskedit to NTemacs in edit, 
fromdos is out of the Slackware distribution, I was going to use utod.exe from DJ, but I couldn't
get it to compile without a rewright, so this is what I came up with.

ps I noticed a reply that says that your question is answered in the NTemacs FAQ, but I will
post these anyway, for anyone who want's to use a regular windoze ( or dos ) text editor
with a binary mount.

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/*  Copyright 1994,1995  Patrick Volkerding, Moorhead, Minnesota USA=0A=
    All rights reserved.=0A=
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 Redistribution and use of this source code, with or without =
modification, is=0A=
 permitted provided that the following condition is met:=0A=
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