Re: XWin.exe crashes

[Lisi <lists at shemeshdirectory dot co dot il>]

At 09:46 PM 11/3/02 +0100, Sven Köhler wrote:
> > I just installed KDE-cygwin, and I haven't gotten it start properly.
> > Based on the errors I'm getting and the FAQs I've read, the suggestion
> > was to make sure the paths are mounted in binmode, which involves
> > changing a registry key. Since I'd prefer not to do that, will this
> > patch work for me as well?
> you can use setup.exe to change back from textmode to binmode, but the 
> problem is, that most of the programs won't be abled to read the 
> text-files they've writte in textmode.
How would I do this with setup? Which option is this, and do I have to 
reinstall everything (i.e. Cygwin, XFree86, individual packages, etc)?


> Christopher Faylor always suggests linking with binmode.o - and i would 
> recomm that too, for the KDE-cygwin project. i don't know, why they don't 
> do it - perhaps because binmode.o is too unknown yet.
>
> but to request, that the user runs cygwin in binmode is not always 
> possible, because migrating back from text- to binmode takes much time 
> (you have to convert every text-file)
Once it's been switched back to binmode, would files written after that be 
in binmode as well? Or would I continue to have a conflict?

TIA,

-Lisi