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Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails


Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

The only real reason why textmode is needed is that notepad cannot
handle binmode (unix) textfiles.

Unfortunately, other tools are also thrown by binmode/textmode.


Ironically, cvs is one of them: if you have a binmode mount, and run a *native* cvs (e.g. cvsnt) that writes a .cvspass file with CR-NL, then the Cygwin cvs tries to read it in binmode, and chokes on the CR. Grrr. So around here, at least, anyone who needs to use the Cygwin cvs and WinCVS on the same work area must use a textmode mount.

So really, textmode support is unavoidable, or else all the ported tools have to be made aware of possible CR-NL line endings..


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