Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:51:44 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails Message-ID: <20040819155144.GC10590@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <41235C84.7060300@gtt-technologies.de> <4123B56F.6010003@gymel.com> <41245BEE.4090900@gtt-technologies.de> <921297065040.20040819105955@familiehaase.de> <41247824.2070901@gymel.com> <412481BC.3010000@gymel.com> <4124A107.2070403@gymel.com> <791319485950.20040819171336@familiehaase.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <791319485950.20040819171336@familiehaase.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Aug 19 17:13, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Sigh. If I were the god of Cygwin, I would have not created textmode > mounts at all. I cannot see the point why it is neccessary to use it. Full ACK! Unfortunately the genuine gods of Cygwin have left the project already long ago and they probably don't even know anymore what that should have been good for. > The only real reason why textmode is needed is that notepad cannot > handle binmode (unix) textfiles. What's "notepad"? SCNR, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/