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Re: Why text=binary mounts (Re: Gnu-win32 (b18), coolview and NTE



-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Hirmke <mh@mike.franken.de>
To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
Date: Saturday, January 10, 1998 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: Why text=binary mounts (Re: Gnu-win32 (b18),
coolview and NTE


>Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc) [lhall@rfk.com] wrote:
>
>[...]
>>Not necessarily.  Various programs do this, including vim and,
I think,
>>NTEmacs.
>>
>>>How do the MS-land programs that understand both line
terminations work?
>>>They probably just accept either on input, then do \r\n on
output, right?
>>
>>Precisely.
>
>Nope, vim for example reads files in "textmode" or "notextmode"
and
>also writes them in the same manner. This is true for the Cygnus
>compiled vim and for the VC++ compiled one under Windows.
>Otherwise you would destroy all your Unix style line breaks,
when
>reading and writing a file with it.
>
>>
>>
>>Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
>
>Bye.
>Michael.
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