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Re: setup.exe feature request (text mounts)
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:19:43AM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>>Cygwin already uses the default settings that we want it to use so, if this
>>is implemented, we wouldn't want to make it the default.
>
>I meant "if the user chooses 'DOS'" (not the global default). I.e. don't
>ever mount c:\cygwin as text, even if the user asks for DOS. Is there
>ever a (good!) reason to mount c:\cygwin\bin or c:\cygwin\lib as text?
Ah. I see. I thought you were saying that we should set /cygdrive to
text.
No, there's no good reason that I can think of to set anything in \bin
or \lib to text mode.
cgf
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