On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Sebastian Schuberth wrote: > > > Well, I only need a solution for my special case *now*, so it's okay > > > for me if mounts are going to be stored anywhere else in the future. > > > My problem is: I've set "Default Text File Format" to "Unix" during > > > setup. Now I just want to change my Cygwin installation as if I had > > > specified "DOS" instead. > > > > You can simply re-run setup in the "Keep" mode and change the > > filesystem type to "DOS"... > > I tried that, but I always used VIM to see if it worked ... I didn't > know VIM (being a text editor) always creates files in binary mode. > > > > > mount -sbc /cygdrive > > > > > > Thanks. I've changed all my mounts to "textmode". > > > > Including the cygdrive prefix? > > I also re-mounted the drives without "cygdrive" prefix, if that's what > you mean.
All of this would've been cleared long ago if you'd attached the output of "cygcheck -svr" as requested in <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>. > > > What I don't get: If I now create a file using VIM and look at it > > > afterwards using "od -c", it still contains \n instead of \r\n line > > > ends. Why is that? > > > > Because VIm always creates files in binary mode, IIRC (perhaps because > > it is linked with binmode.o, not automode.o?). Try ":set > > fileformat=dos" before saving the file. You can also put the above > > command in your ~/.vimrc. > > Strange: "set fileformat=dos" works in the editor, but not when entered > into ".vimrc" (other commands in there work). In your .vimrc you'd probably need ":set fileformats=dos,unix" (see ":help 'fileformats'" and ":help 'fileformat'" in VIm). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
