From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: text-vs-binary yet again
14 Mar 1998 14:16:34 -0800
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To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com>
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On 10-Mar-1998, Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
> 
> As an aside, I don't know how you are going to use cygwin32 but if you 
> plan to port any UNIX code you will need to modify your mounts to be 
> text=binary.  Check out the archives and FAQ for this.

No, you don't need to modify your mounts to be text=binary.

The other alternative is to fix any places where the source code
of whatever it is you're porting opens binary files without specifying
"b"/O_BINARY in the fopen/open flags, and to fix any places where
the source code makes assumptions about the representation of text
files.

This alternative is a little more work, but the resulting programs
will be able to interoperate with native Windows programs much better.

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