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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <630773CD.4070596A.00822747@netscape.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Nicolas Christin 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? __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ -- 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/