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From: Shankar Unni <shankarunni AT netscape DOT net>
Subject:  Re: file not working on executables?
Date:  Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:19:50 -0700
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> You should not mount the whole Cygwin tree in textmode

Totally agree. But we need to do a "text mode install" from setup.exe 
because so many of the tools we use are non-Cygwin tools, and "cvs" does 
nasty (or at least unattractive) things if the mount is binmode, and the 
text file contains "^M"s. But this really applies only to the cygdrive 
mounts (since that's where the affected files live).

What would be nice is if setup *always* mounted / and /usr/lib in 
binmode, and /usr/bin in "mount -x" mode, and only honored the "text 
mode" in the installer screen for the cygdrive mounts.


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