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Subject: Re: Switching  Default Text Type
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On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Shankar Unni wrote:

> Lennart Borgman wrote:
> > What is the minimum sequence of operations needed to switch default
> > text type in Cygwin?
>
> mount -m > commands.sh
>
> # edit commands.sh, and change -t to -b or vice versa
>
> sh commands.sh

Or, in one shot:

Text->Binary:

eval "`mount -m | sed '/ -s /s/ -t / -b /'`"

Binary->Text:
eval "`mount -m | sed '/X11/!{/ -s /s/ -b / -t /}'`"

(See <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg00124.html>).
	Igor
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