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From: "Michael A Chase" <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, "Steinar Bang" <sb AT dod DOT no>
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Subject: Re: changing default text type without reinstall?
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 10:46:12 -0800
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steinar Bang" <sb AT dod DOT no>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 07:35
Subject: changing default text type without reinstall?


> Platform: CygWin 1.3.2, CygWin/XFree86 4.1.0, Win2k
> 
> Is it possible to change from text type "Unix" to text type "DOS",
> without reinstall?

mount --help

> Will changing the text type give cygwin/xfree86 problems?

I don't know, but probably not.

> Is it possible to make cygwin cvs do line ending conversion, without
> changing the default text type of the entire cygwin installation?

I'm not familiar enough with CVS to comment on this.

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