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Date:	Fri, 9 Sep 2005 15:27:36 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: setup.exe feature request (text mounts)
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On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 11:00:42AM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote:
>Since the text-mode mounts discussion (re: the "file" command) drifted 
>off into the merits of text vs binary mode (talk fodder), I thought I'd 
>split off this one as a top-level message to reiterate the request.
>
>Could setup.exe be modified so that the choice of "text" vs "binary" 
>(DOS vs Unix line endings, in that screen) is applied _only_ to the 
>cygdrive mount?
>
>It would be nice if one of the choices (or perhaps the default choice if 
>the user chooses "DOS endings") was to make:
>
>/           binmode
>/usr/lib    binmode
>/usr/bin    binmode,exec
>
>/cygdrive   textmode (whatever the user chose at that screen).
>
>Does this sound reasonable and doable?

Cygwin already uses the default settings that we want it to use so, if this
is implemented, we wouldn't want to make it the default.

cgf

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