Subject: \r\n's and the like...
From: David Starks-Browning <[email-masked]>
To: "Elfyn McBratney" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Cygwin ML" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 11:16:46 +0100

On Thursday 27 Jun 02, Elfyn McBratney writes:
> Hi,
> 
> Im writing a backup script for our systems and i was wondering if the the
> line endings will affect the files when and if they are restored. I read
> somewhere that when cygwin opens or writes files it has a slightly different
> line-ending...
> 
> The files and or directory trees would be tarred up and then untarred when
> restored.

No *Cygwin* backup/restore solutions (tar, rsync, ...) should modify
your files in this way.  If any do, please report it.  On the other
hand, Windows applications (e.g. WinZip) could very possible do that
sort of thing.

Regards,
David

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