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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:14:08 -0400
From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi, Ph.D." <ssiddiqi AT inspirepharm DOT com>
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> This is caused by lazy porting. Lazy porting is relying in the
> default processing mode for a file. CAUTION: If you change to
> binary mounts you will need to remove all \r characters from the
> line endings of all scripts.
That is why I do not like binary mounts.
But this is a development problem, not a usage one. Yes, developers
and porters should be much more careful about their f?open() calls.
But where users are concerned, I find it hard to use text mounts (and
recommend them to other users) when even the most important program of
them all (bash) is not yet binary/text clean.
--
Ian Zimmerman
Lightbinders, Inc.
2325 3rd Street #324
San Francisco, California 94107
U.S.A.
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