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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 17:48:22 +0200
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>>Well, I only need a solution for my special case *now*, so it's okay for
>>me if mounts are going to be stored anywhere else in the future. My
>>problem is: I've set "Default Text File Format" to "Unix" during setup.
>>Now I just want to change my Cygwin installation as if I had specified
>>"DOS" instead.
> 
> You can simply re-run setup in the "Keep" mode and change the filesystem
> type to "DOS"...

I tried that, but I always used VIM to see if it worked ... I didn't 
know VIM (being a text editor) always creates files in binary mode.

>>>mount -sbc /cygdrive
>>
>>Thanks. I've changed all my mounts to "textmode".
> 
> Including the cygdrive prefix?

I also re-mounted the drives without "cygdrive" prefix, if that's what 
you mean.

>>What I don't get: If I now create a file using VIM and look at it
>>afterwards using "od -c", it still contains \n instead of \r\n line
>>ends. Why is that?
> 
> Because VIm always creates files in binary mode, IIRC (perhaps because it
> is linked with binmode.o, not automode.o?).  Try ":set fileformat=dos"
> before saving the file.  You can also put the above command in your
> ~/.vimrc.

Strange: "set fileformat=dos" works in the editor, but not when entered 
into ".vimrc" (other commands in there work).

-- 
Sebastian Schuberth

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