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Subject: RE: R: How to make cygwin redirect in UNIX mode?
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 10:47:51 +0100
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From: "Phil Betts" <Phil.Betts@ascribe.com>
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:27:27AM +0800, Pan ruochen wrote:
> >> you installed cygwin in text mode.
> >> So the output is DOS style, to have UNIX output
> >> you need to install in binmode
> >
> >I did get one cygwin distribution which can excute scripts both in
DOS
> >mode and in UNIX mode and output in UNIX mode.  The distribution is
> >released in one install-shield package instead of numbers of gzip
> >packages with a setup program in the traditional way.
>=20
> Whoa! Stop right there.  If you got Cygwin from someone else then you
> should go to the source for support.  We don't support other people's
> packages here.  We support the version of Cygwin that you get from the
> Cygwin web site.  Theoretically this should not be too surprising.
>=20
> Please don't bother this list with questions about someone else's
> distribution.  Really.  I mean it.

Whoa! Careful with that knee-jerk! [*]

I thought the point was that the "official" install didn't work, but=20
that the 3rd party packaged version *did* work (presumably because it's=20
using an ancient, line-ending agnostic bash, and has been installed=20
with binary mounts)

My advice to the OP would be to reinstall the official release, and=20
this time make sure that "Unix/binary (RECOMMENDED)" is selected in the
"Default Text File Type" section in setup.exe.  That version you've=20
installed is completely out of date.  As soon as you try to update it,
you're likely to run into far more problems than if you install a
current version and keep it up to date.


[*] just to be clear and avoid offense, that's "knee-jerk" as in the=20
reaction, not "knee, jerk" which would have had a completely different=20
meaning ;-)

Phil
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