Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: changing default text type without reinstall? References: <87665hrz8w DOT fsf AT home DOT lan> <01bf01c1ab50$f3255cd0$0d00a8c0 AT mchasecompaq> <873d0frqtz DOT fsf AT home DOT lan> <87y9i7qbs9 DOT fsf AT home DOT lan> <008801c1aee9$114b3900$0d00a8c0 AT mchasecompaq> From: Steinar Bang Organization: Probably a good idea Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 11:54:33 +0100 In-Reply-To: <008801c1aee9$114b3900$0d00a8c0@mchasecompaq> ("Michael A Chase"'s message of "Wed, 6 Feb 2002 00:28:15 -0800") Message-ID: <87wuxq3mom.fsf@home.lan> Lines: 52 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, i386-debian-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >>>>> "Michael A Chase" : [...] > I think you found most of what you needed, but did the articles you > found explain enough? If not, what parts were insufficient or > unclear? An example of changing the line ending convention for a part of the directory tree would have saved me from pondering the command line arguments and why they went wrong. Also, I'm still not sure how the line ending conversion works. I tried notepad.exe both on /home/sba/.bashrc and on some files in a freshly checked out CVS workspace, and files both places showed up correctly. I then tried notepad.exe on a file in the /etc directory, and this file still had only LF line separators, as seen from notepad. This means that it probably wasn't neccessary for me to check out the CVS workspace again, because all files in the directories under the new mount point were changed somehow? (since notepad.exe doesn't read any form of cygwin config) An explanation of the principles makes it easier to understand what to do, and what to expect. [snip!] > The thing that puzzles me about that error message is that it didn't > complain about c:cygwinhome instead since the bash command line > reader uses '\' as an escape character. The easy way to avoid that > problem is to use '/' instead of '\' even in Windows paths passed to > cygwin programs. I tried mount -t c:/cygwin/home /home and that worked fine. > There are two types of mount points, user and system. By default > mount creates user (-u) mount points. These only apply to the > current user and override the corresponding system mount points. > Normally I only create system (-s) mount points. Ah, I should have used mount -s -t c:/cygwin/home /home I guess (I didn't read this far before running the command...:-) ). Thanx for your help! - Steinar -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/