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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.0.20040215132548.03949790@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 13:35:52 -0500 To: Chuck Irvine , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: Why choice between unix and dos line endings? In-Reply-To: <001e01c3f368$f3bddac0$6500a8c0@Ray> References: <001e01c3f368$f3bddac0$6500a8c0 AT Ray> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 09:10 PM 2/14/2004, Chuck Irvine 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 By definition, there's only 1 reason to choose UNIX over DOS as an installation option. It facilitates the use of packages that have not been completely/properly ported to Windows. If you want maximum compatibility with UNIX apps, choose UNIX. Otherwise, choose DOS. Practically, this boils down to the fact that you'll run into less trouble overall (whether using Windows or Cygwin apps) with the UNIX setting. But there are certain usage patterns that make it reasonable to offer the option. So the recommendation here is to use UNIX unless you know of a reason you need to do otherwise. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/