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. >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/