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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:01:13 -0600
From: Warren Young <warren AT etr-usa DOT com>
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Subject: Re: What does Dos mode vs unix mode mean when you install cygwin
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"Castle, Eric" wrote:
> 
> just how cygwin, including processing files in perl, uses either \r\n or \n
> for line termination?

Yes, and how text files are created, by default.

> I don't recall the old installer program (called full.exe) ask that question
> back on B18.

It's a fairly new feature.

> Any recomendation on which type to use? I've been choosing "dos" but not
> sure what that is really doing vs choosing unix.

I've had perl scripts copied over from the Linux box break because I was
using chop() to get rid of line endings instead of chomp().  If you tell
Cygwin to expect Unix line endings, that problem doesn't occur, but
then, maybe you have a lot of DOS text files already.  If I try to use
Cygwin on my Visual C++ source files, for example, I need to be using
DOS text mode.

That's why you're given a choice -- one answer isn't right for everyone.

Hmmm, an *ix lover at Intuit...so when's Quicken for Linux coming out? 
:)
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