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Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 09:06:14 -0500
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From: Ken Thompson <ken DOT thompson AT gtri DOT gatech DOT edu>
Subject: Re: Why choice between unix and dos line endings?
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At 09:10 PM 2/14/2004, you wrote:
>Something I've never been able to figure out is why Cygwin offers to
>install with the choice of either dos or unix line endings. The way I
>see it is that using dos line endings allows for good integration with
>native windows apps. I can see no advantage of using unix line endings,
>though I guess there must be one otherwise the option wouldn't be
>offered. Can any one shed some light on this. Thanks
>
>Chuck
>

The purpose of the cygwin project is to provide a posix emulation on top of 
win32 to allow easy porting of unix applications.  Unix applications DO NOT 
use DOS line endings.  Integration with native windows applications is at 
best a secondary goal of the project.  I would never select DOS line 
endings because it would break most of the applications I use cygwin for.


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