From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: More on getting coolview-bash to work with emacs 9 Dec 1997 23:39:02 -0800 Message-ID: <01BD0554.11F03AB0.cygnus.gnu-win32@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> To: "'Jason Zions'" Cc: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" Jason Zions wrote: > Cygwin has multiple goals; while "Unix on NT" is one of them, it appears > to be of less importance than the others: a free development environment > for Win32, a way of getting more tools more rapidly into the Win32 > world, etc. In meeting those goals, supporting the Win32 line-ending of > \r\n is relatively important. Folks living in the Win32 world don't want > to give up Win32 tools that operate on text files; because of that, they > need cygwin to deal properly with \r\n-style text files. I live in Win32 world too, but why I never needed \r in line separators?-) The file management/editing tools I use works with bot types of line separators, moreover, the editor preserves original line separators on file saving. The only file I have to have with CRLF is NT's boot.ini - ntldr just traps if the file contains single \n as line separators :-) -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia Looking for a job. - 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".