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: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:28:34 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup.exe feature request (text mounts) Message-ID: <20050912182834.GG16064@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20050909192736.GF12982@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:19:43AM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: >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? Ah. I see. I thought you were saying that we should set /cygdrive to text. No, there's no good reason that I can think of to set anything in \bin or \lib to text mode. cgf -- 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/