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Rationale for line-ending recommendation?
- From: David Abrahams <dave at boostpro dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:42:20 -0900
- Subject: Rationale for line-ending recommendation?
Can anyone explain why the installer began recommending using *nix line
ending conventions? DOS-compatible endings have always "just worked"
for me and I've heard of lots of problems doing it the now-recommended
way. See
http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3ca61d44020812070523t3778f924m1a179f75d879775c%40mail.gmail.com%3e
for reference
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Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
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