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Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 17:40:46 +0200
From: Sebastian Schuberth <s DOT schuberth AT tu-bs DOT de>
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To: Paul Eggert <eggert AT CS DOT UCLA DOT EDU>
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Paul Eggert wrote:

> Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net> writes:
> 
>>it now defaults to the underlying mount mode when the user does not
>>specify binary or text.  In my opinion, dd should default to binary
>>when neither text nor binary is specified
> 
> Hmm, overriding the explicit advice of the system administrator?
> How common is it for file systems to be mounted in text mode?  Why
> would anyone do such a thing?  If it's sufficiently rare, then dd
> shouldn't need to worry about it.

If you run Cygwin under Windows and mix usage of Cygwin's command line
CVS client and e.g. TortoiseCVS, you need to mount the file systems in
text mode. Otherwise, you get additional line feeds when checking in /
out to / from a CVS server (that runs under Unix).

-- 
Sebastian Schuberth

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