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: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 13:10:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Robert R Schneck cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: File format - UNIX/DOS while installing cygwin ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <001301c497d6$8bbd6fe0$9c7ba8c0@amer.cisco.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Robert R Schneck wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Sep 2004, Ramneek Singh wrote: > > > Hi, > > > While installing cygwin, it asks in the wizard whether file format is > > > unix or dos. > > > What is this for ? > > > [explanation] ...that contained, among other things: > > "Unix" is usually the right choice, unless ... > > [snip] > > ...so you're better off with binary mounts anyway, but you can always > > change your mind later... > > [snip] > > In general, binary mounts are better. which is basically what you said below. Igor > > In other words, experiment -- find out what works for you. > > But the long and short of it is, use "unix" (binary mounts). > > Then if you find you really need text mounts, change it later. > > Robert -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- 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/