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Date:	Fri, 29 Mar 2002 15:45:13 -0500
To:	"Gaurav Khanna" <GKhanna AT InterAsset DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From:	"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject:	Re: VI and DOS Mode
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At 03:36 PM 3/29/2002, Gaurav Khanna wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I installed the cygwin bash shell along with the VIM editor on windows.
>Now the problem is that it opens up the files in UNIX mode and not in
>DOS mode. And it saves that way too. I have tried reinstalling the whole
>thing including the vim editor and specifying DOS as the default file
>type but to no avail. What am I missing? 
>Initially I had specified UNIX as the default type but since then I have
>done a lot of I installations trying to get DOS as the default.
>Please help.


Sorry, I don't have the problem here, even with binary mount points.  
Setting fileformat=dos allows me to read and write files in DOS mode 
whenever I want with vim.  Perhaps you need to do a little more debugging
on your end.



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