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Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 11:24:59 -0500
From: Robinows AT netscape DOT net (David Robinow)
To: nicolas AT cs DOT virginia DOT edu (Nicolas Christin), cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Detecting text type in a shell script
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Nicolas Christin <nicolas AT cs DOT virginia DOT edu> wrote:
>
>I have been looking into the mailing-list archives and the manual but
>could not find any answer to the following problem, which will certainly
>sound trivial. I am release-engineering some software developed under
>Unix. The thing installs just fine under Cygwin when the "UNIX file"
>text type has been selected at installation type but breaks if the "DOS
>file" text type has been selected. So, what I would want to have in the
>./install of the package I am release-enginering is something of the
>form:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>
>if [ ${cygwin-unix-type} eq "true" ]; then
>        proceed();
>else
>        bail();
>fi;
>
>How can I detect what text type was chosen at install time? (So that I
>can appropriately set/unset my cygwin-unix-type variable.)

   Has it occurred to you that a better solution might be to fix your software so that it works properly with text mounts?


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