From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: Why text=binary mounts (Re: Gnu-win32 (b18), coolview and NTEmacs) 7 Jan 1998 06:01:11 -0800 Message-ID: <19980107132827.10951.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: sab AT seanet DOT com Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >From: Scott Blachowicz >Date: 06 Jan 1998 11:25:43 -0800 > [snip] >So, why IS it that the coolview code requires text=binary mode mounts >anyways? Let me remind you that the purpose of the cygnus gnu-win32 project is to port UNIX code. Most of the UNIX world programs choke on the \r\n combination. Therefore text=binary is the easiest solution. >-- >Scott Blachowicz - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Mail Archives) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad) ftp://ftp.deninc.com/pub (Den Internet Services) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - 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".