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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:08:28 +0200
From: Rabbe Fogelholm <Rabbe DOT Fogelholm AT ellemtel DOT se>
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: Making Cygwin write DOS style text files
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Hi again,

Doug Wyatt <dwyatt AT sunflower DOT com> advised me to check if I was on a
text=binary or a text!=binary mount. It turns out that I was on a
text!=binary mount, and that creating a text=binary mount did not solve
my problem (either way I get files with a single LF as the end-of-line
sequence).

Several people (N8TM AT aol DOT com, Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>,
"McCunney, Dennis" <DMcCunney AT roper DOT com>) advised me to get a more
forgiving editor than Notepad. This is no problem on my part (I use
Emacs when possible), but other users out there will think that my
Cygwin-based script does a poor job if it produces files that "look
weird" in the Microsoft environment.

So, while I consider the CR LF convention to be among the stupidest of
this century, I still have to stick to it :-(.

--Rabbe Fogelholm, Ellemtel


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