From: pete AT horus DOT cix DOT co DOT uk (Pete Jordan) Subject: Re: Bug in od, cat, etc reading binary files 29 Sep 1997 18:47:56 -0700 Message-ID: References: <199709291440 DOT IAA16508 AT chorus DOT dr DOT lucent DOT com> Reply-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com marcus AT bighorn DOT dr DOT lucent DOT com () wrote: > It seems that the thing that causes the most problems communicating > with each other is the wholesale mounting of filesystems in binary > mode. This cures some big problems in the Unix view of processes in > the cygwin world, but makes it totally impossible to share text files > between the cygwin world and the rest of the NT/W95 world. Eh? All my mounts are binary and it causes me virtually no problems at all. My (Windows) text editor both understands and can be persuaded to create LF-terminated files, VC++ is happy with them, in fact most apps are (Delphi being the only notable exception here). Where's the problem? Pete Jordan ~ Horus Communications ~ http://www.horus.cix.co.uk/ "Is a polar bear a rectangular bear after a coordinate transform?" - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".