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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 19:05:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: New versions of bzip2 and patch?
To: Michael Ring <michael-ring AT t-online DOT de>, cygwin-apps AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
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--- Michael Ring <michael-ring AT t-online DOT de> wrote:
> 
> In a standard installation TMP or TEMP points to a directory outside
> your cygwin installation (normally somewhere on the drive where nt is
> installed). The drive is accessed in textmode per default, so the
> temporary files gets written with cr/lf endings. The final copy now puts
> this cr/lf file in your /tmp directory and now you end up with a file
> that includes cr/lf (which is not what you want).
> 
> I have seen postings about this problem every once a while on cygwin.
> 

Used to be a problem, setup now does the correct thing and makes /cygdrive
mounted to whatever the user chooses, either UNIX mode or DOS mode and USER
context or SYSTEM context.



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Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com

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