Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/04/11/11:57:07
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:
> > > 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.
All of this would've been cleared long ago if you'd attached the output of
"cygcheck -svr" as requested in <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.
> > > 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).
In your .vimrc you'd probably need ":set fileformats=dos,unix" (see ":help
'fileformats'" and ":help 'fileformat'" in VIm).
Igor
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