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Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 4 09:55, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > And while we're at it, I don't see any need to stick to the UNIX/DOS
> > > choice either. We should always install binary mount points. If the
> > > user needs text mounts, there's an editor and a fstab file, right?
> >
> > Ah, but which mode will you edit it in? :-)
>
> Doesn't matter. The code reading fstab understands LF and CRLF line
> endings :)
Does it also understand CR*LF endings (e.g., CRCRCRCRLF)? You can get
those if you switch between binary and text mode a few times...
Igor
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