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From: Ken Wagnitz <ken AT waggies DOT net>
Subject:  Re: Similar Bash 3.1.18 CR/LF Problem
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:04:55 +0000 (UTC)
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Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please <at> cygwin.com> writes:

> 
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 01:14:37PM -0700, Wilks, Dan wrote:
> >cgf wrote:
> >>I really am getting a bad feeling that, rather than FIXING THE SCRIPTS,
> >>everyone is reverting to using text mode mounts which are not what we
> >>generally recommend.
> >
...
> 
> If you want to continue to use Cygwin tools, you really should
> investigate converting the generated scripts.
...
> 
...
> People who have not been entirely clear on
> what Cygwin is supposed to be or are not willing/able to adapt might be
> left behind by this and other similar changes.
> 
> cgf
> 
> 

I am another who has been bitten by this change to the behaviour of Cygwin.
Obviously I am one who is being "left behind".
What platform is Cygwin written to run on?  How would the Unix community react
if someone ported a really nifty tool from the DOS/Windows world to Unix, but
its data or script files had to have CR/LF endings for it to work?

Ken.



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