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Re: Problem with -i ignore-file option in version 6.9 ptx in cygwin environment
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, Graig McHendrie <graigm at sbcglobal dot net>
- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:18:19 -0600
- Subject: Re: Problem with -i ignore-file option in version 6.9 ptx in cygwin environment
- References: <800582.11786.qm@web81612.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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According to Graig on 10/14/2007 7:51 AM:
> The message below generated an email thread amongst the gnu folks,
to which, I reiterate what I said in that thread:
> I maintain the cygwin port of coreutils. Cygwin's philosophy is a bit
> different from some of the other ports to windows: when using binary
> mounts, cygwin's goal is to behave like Linux. Since ptx on Linux has the
> same behavior in treating \r literally, that is why I have made no effort
> for cygwin to behave any differently when you are using a cygwin binary
> mount. Put another way, the fact that you use a binary mount on cygwin is
> an agreement on your part to use files that are binary-compatible with
> Linux (ie no \r line endings), and tools like d2u should be used to
> convert problem files on a cygwin binary mount. On the other hand, you
> can use a cygwin text mount, which will ignore the \r with no
> recompilation required.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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