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Re: Switching Default Text Type
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Shankar Unni <shankarunni at netscape dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:04:52 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Switching Default Text Type
- References: <43A1E9E5.4080305@student.lu.se> <dnt0qv$bnm$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Shankar Unni wrote:
> Lennart Borgman wrote:
> > What is the minimum sequence of operations needed to switch default
> > text type in Cygwin?
>
> mount -m > commands.sh
>
> # edit commands.sh, and change -t to -b or vice versa
>
> sh commands.sh
Or, in one shot:
Text->Binary:
eval "`mount -m | sed '/ -s /s/ -t / -b /'`"
Binary->Text:
eval "`mount -m | sed '/X11/!{/ -s /s/ -b / -t /}'`"
(See <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg00124.html>).
Igor
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