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: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:32:11 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails Message-ID: <20040820223211.GD4833@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <41235C84 DOT 7060300 AT gtt-technologies DOT de> <4123B56F DOT 6010003 AT gymel DOT com> <41245BEE DOT 4090900 AT gtt-technologies DOT de> <921297065040 DOT 20040819105955 AT familiehaase DOT de> <41247824 DOT 2070901 AT gymel DOT com> <412481BC DOT 3010000 AT gymel DOT com> <4124A107 DOT 2070403 AT gymel DOT com> <791319485950 DOT 20040819171336 AT familiehaase DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 09:54:55AM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: >Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > >>The only real reason why textmode is needed is that notepad cannot >>handle binmode (unix) textfiles. > >Unfortunately, other tools are also thrown by binmode/textmode. > >Ironically, cvs is one of them: if you have a binmode mount, and run a >*native* cvs (e.g. cvsnt) that writes a .cvspass file with CR-NL, then >the Cygwin cvs tries to read it in binmode, and chokes on the CR. Grrr. >So around here, at least, anyone who needs to use the Cygwin cvs and >WinCVS on the same work area must use a textmode mount. > >So really, textmode support is unavoidable, or else all the ported tools >have to be made aware of possible CR-NL line endings.. Well, nearly any native UNIX tool would be confused by CRLF endings. If you are going to use Windows and UNIX tools like that then you sort of get what you deserve, IMO. Just stick with Cygwin CVS and you'll be all set. cgf -- 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/