On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 2 10:14, Vincent Rowley wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> > > Oh, wait. I see you're running coreutils-5.2.1-2. That version might
> > > actually have textmode issues. The current version is 5.2.1-5. Could
> > > you please try if that solves your problem?
> >
> > I will try this in a couple of hours and let you know.
> >
> > By the way, would you recommend us to install Cygwin selecting the
> > Unix mode? If yes, how should we proceed since we have already
> > installed it in DOS mode? I was thinking that we should select DOS
> > since our non-Cygwin applications are Windows applications. Please let
> > me know what you think.
>
> I would always and everywhere suggest to install in binmode. Textmode
> is an unfortunate idea which only results in problems. We're keeping
> that for some sort of (probably misguided) backward compatibility.
> Personally I'd rather get rid of them.
>
> You don't have to reinstall everything when you change over to binmode,
> but you should be aware that some of your textfiles have to be
> converted! Tcsh for instance doesn't like \r\n in scripts.
>
> If you want to switch over to binmode, just umount all of your mount
> points and then re-mount them again using the -b option (but that's
> default anyway):
>
> cd /bin
> ./umount /
> ./mount -f C:/apps/cygwin /
> [etc]
>
> The /cygdrive mounts are changed by just calling `mount -c /cygdrive'.
Two more (probably easier) ways:
1) Run setup.exe and select "Unix line endings"; then select the "Keep"
mode (switch to the "Partial" view to make sure no packages will get
installed), and complete the installation. The mounts will be switched.
2) From a bash prompt in /bin, run
PATH="$PATH:." eval "`mount -m | grep ' -t ' | sed 's/ -t / -b /'`"
(Google for "cygwin remount binary").
HTH,
Igor
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