Re: How to setup cygwin to use always textmode, Conclusion

2011-03-22 Thread Ralf
Conclusion (please correct me if I'm not right): - There is no way to select 'always textmode' in the current release of cygwin - I've to make sure that filesystems are mounted correctly (see /etc/fstab) and that I name filenames correctly to get the right mode - When I use windows filenames the

Re: How to setup cygwin to use always textmode

2011-03-18 Thread Andy Koppe
On 18 March 2011 16:48, ralf wrote: > Eric Blake writes: >> But you didn't need the setup.exe radio button to get the same effect, >> instead, just change your mounts manually (/etc/fstab) to set the >> text-mode mount flag on the subset of directories where it matters to you. > > In releases with

Re: How to setup cygwin to use always textmode

2011-03-18 Thread ralf
Eric Blake redhat.com> writes: > > On 03/18/2011 10:00 AM, ralf wrote: > > > > During setup of cygwin you could choose between UNIX ending und DOS ending. > > Which was a bug in the GUI for offering it in the first place, because > it basically set the text-mode mount flag on every single dire

Re: How to setup cygwin to use always textmode

2011-03-18 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/18/2011 10:00 AM, ralf wrote: > Eric Blake redhat.com> writes: >> >> On 03/18/2011 09:11 AM, ralf wrote: >>> I can not understand why this feature has been dropped. >> >> What feature? Cygwin was designed with POSIX pathnames in mind. If DOS >> pathnames work, it is a fortunate side-effec

Re: How to setup cygwin to use always textmode

2011-03-18 Thread ralf
Eric Blake redhat.com> writes: > > On 03/18/2011 09:11 AM, ralf wrote: > > I can not understand why this feature has been dropped. > > What feature? Cygwin was designed with POSIX pathnames in mind. If DOS > pathnames work, it is a fortunate side-effect, but not the primary > design goal, and

Re: How to setup cygwin to use

2011-03-18 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/18/2011 09:11 AM, ralf wrote: > I can not understand why this feature has been dropped. What feature? Cygwin was designed with POSIX pathnames in mind. If DOS pathnames work, it is a fortunate side-effect, but not the primary design goal, and not subject to stay the same in future release

Re: How to setup cygwin to use

2011-03-18 Thread ralf
Eric Blake redhat.com> writes: > > On 03/18/2011 01:43 AM, Ralf wrote: > > I'm using cygwin under windows to change text-files with windows line-endings > > (CR and LF). I wrote a lot of shell-scripts which call each other. The > > filenames in those scripts are sometimes given als windows fi

Re: How to setup cygwin to use "always" testmode

2011-03-18 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/18/2011 01:43 AM, Ralf wrote: > I'm using cygwin under windows to change text-files with windows line-endings > (CR and LF). I wrote a lot of shell-scripts which call each other. The > filenames in those scripts are sometimes given als windows filenames (e.g. > c:\temp\file.txt) sometimes