Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:37:46 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: What does Dos mode vs unix mode mean when you install cygwin Message-ID: <20010717103746.D15396@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <005d01c10e72$9cdd6460$9865fea9@timayum4srqln4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <005d01c10e72$9cdd6460$9865fea9@timayum4srqln4>; from tprince@computer.org on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:43:14PM -0700 On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:43:14PM -0700, Tim Prince wrote: > Entirely a matter of preference, and what the non-cygwin apps you intend > to use prefer. For me, the hardest part of "unix" files is remembering > to always ftp "binary" and not to attach files to Windows e-mail unless > they are suffixed .doc or converted. More and more apps can deal with > either kind of file. UNIX = binary = faster read/write (no CR/LF conversion needed) The Cygwin ftp from the inetd package should use binary as default when connecting to a UNIX system. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/