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Re: hybrid text/binary mount
- To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: hybrid text/binary mount
- From: Mumit Khan <khan at NanoTech dot Wisc dot EDU>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 14:44:47 -0500
Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> writes:
>
> So, we'll be no worse off with raw PBM files than we are right now.
> This is obviously not 100% foolproof. That may be a reason not
> to even consider it because it will make problems a lot harder
> to track down.
That was the caveat I was pointing out as well -- better the devil
you ... At least we can now control the behaviour in two predictable
ways -- mount and explicit binary/text mode I/O.
Jeffrey Juliano brought up the issue of Emacs' handling of text vs
binary. I think it's apples and oranges since text editors misreading
text vs binary is immediately evident to the user, but not so to
a say a program that converts one format to the other in a batch
mode.
Regards,
Mumit