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From: Shankar Unni <shankarunni AT netscape DOT net>
Subject: Re: setup.exe feature request (text mounts)
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:19:43 -0700
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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> 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.

I meant "if the user chooses 'DOS'" (not the global default). I.e. don't 
ever mount c:\cygwin as text, even if the user asks for DOS. Is there 
ever a (good!) reason to mount c:\cygwin\bin or c:\cygwin\lib as text?


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