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RE: More on getting coolview-bash to work with emacs
- To: "'Jason Zions'" <jazz at opennt dot com>
- Subject: RE: More on getting coolview-bash to work with emacs
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 10:12:06 +0300
- Cc: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
Jason Zions wrote:
> Cygwin has multiple goals; while "Unix on NT" is one of them, it appears
> to be of less importance than the others: a free development environment
> for Win32, a way of getting more tools more rapidly into the Win32
> world, etc. In meeting those goals, supporting the Win32 line-ending of
> \r\n is relatively important. Folks living in the Win32 world don't want
> to give up Win32 tools that operate on text files; because of that, they
> need cygwin to deal properly with \r\n-style text files.
I live in Win32 world too, but why I never needed \r in line separators?-)
The file management/editing tools I use works with bot types of line
separators, moreover, the editor preserves original line separators on file
saving.
The only file I have to have with CRLF is NT's boot.ini - ntldr just traps
if the file contains single \n as line separators :-)
--
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
Looking for a job.
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