Something I've never been able to figure out is why Cygwin offers to install with the choice of either dos or unix line endings. The way I see it is that using dos line endings allows for good integration with native windows apps. I can see no advantage of using unix line endings, though I guess there must be one otherwise the option wouldn't be offered. Can any one shed some light on this. Thanks
Chuck
The purpose of the cygwin project is to provide a posix emulation on top of win32 to allow easy porting of unix applications. Unix applications DO NOT use DOS line endings. Integration with native windows applications is at best a secondary goal of the project. I would never select DOS line endings because it would break most of the applications I use cygwin for.
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