On Friday 21 Feb 03, Rich DeFuria writes: > Hello, > > I am (happily) running cygwin on a win2k box. > > During installation, I chose the DOS line end option; big mistake! > > Now I want to change the setting to UNIX line ends. > > How do I toggle that setting? > > BTW, I have read the cygwin FAQ section > "4.3.3 How is the DOS/Unix CR/LF thing handled?" > but that is not explored there.
"DOS" line endings correspond to the -t (text) option to mount. "UNIX" line endings correspond to the -b (binary) option to mount. Type "mount" to see your current mount table, and change them from text to binary. Regards, David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
