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Re: Why choice between unix and dos line endings?
- From: Ken Thompson <ken dot thompson at gtri dot gatech dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: 2004年2月15日 09:06:14 -0500
- Subject: Re: Why choice between unix and dos line endings?
- References: <001e01c3f368$f3bddac06500ドルa8c0@Ray>
At 09:10 PM 2/14/2004, you wrote:
Something I've never been able to figure out is why Cygwin offers to
install with the choice of either dos or unix line endings. The way I
see it is that using dos line endings allows for good integration with
native windows apps. I can see no advantage of using unix line endings,
though I guess there must be one otherwise the option wouldn't be
offered. Can any one shed some light on this. Thanks
Chuck
The purpose of the cygwin project is to provide a posix emulation on top of
win32 to allow easy porting of unix applications. Unix applications DO NOT
use DOS line endings. Integration with native windows applications is at
best a secondary goal of the project. I would never select DOS line
endings because it would break most of the applications I use cygwin for.
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