Re: cygwin on windows, repository on linux, cr/lf problems

[Eric Taylor]

Thanks that helps a lot.

It looks to be a problem with my PATH setup, which included an older directory
from my earlier cygwin type of setup (djgpp??) dated around 1997.

I must be the only one in the universe still using the original ed, since I 
discovered it is not in
the newer cygwin /usr/bin. This older one keeps putting in the cr/lf on me,
even though the mount command says binmode. I must be showing my age :(
but hey, if I ever again run across a hard-copy terminal, I can still edit a 
file :)

thanks

eric




address@hidden wrote:

> In a message of Fri, 02 Jul 2004 20:31:31 GMT
> Received on Fri, 02 Jul 2004 22:38:13 +0200
>
> Eric Taylor <address@hidden> wrote to address@hidden
>
> >Larry Jones wrote:
> >
> >> Eric Taylor writes:
> >> >
> >> > Is there a way to force line ending conversion? Is this a cygwin 
> >> > problem? Or maybe my
> >> > ssh connection is causing this?
> >>
> >> It's probably a cygwin problem -- there's an installation option for
> >> whether to use CR/LF or just LF as the default line ending and the
> >> default is (incorrectly, in my opinion) just LF.
> >>
> >
> >That is what I thought, but then all the text programs, like echo, ed, etc.
> >create the files with a cr/lf pair, as they should. So, it's somewhere else,
> >and what else is  left other than cvs (on both ends), and ssh?
> >
>
> Cygwin tries very hard to be Unix.  It works best if you let it write
> text files without the CR.  This is controlled by a mount option to your
> disk mounts.  Make all your mounts binmode and you shouldn't have the
> problem you describe.  (In binmode all Cygwin tools will only write LF
> like they do on real Unix, i.e., fopen(path,"r") is the same as
> fopen(path,"rb")).
>
> Enter `mount' to see the current mode.  Change it with umount/mount as
> on Unix.  `mount --help' will list the details.  I think you can even
> mount the same Windows path twice to different mount points, one in
> binmode and one in textmode.  And unlike Unix, the mount points don't
> need to exists as directories on disk.  But that isn't recommended.
>
> The problem arises because the Cygwin cvs client always thinks it is on
> Unix (irrespective of the mount mode) and therefore does not do CR/LF
> conversion.  I don't think the Cygwin cvs client will ever write CR/LF
> pairs unless the CR is in the repository (which is usually wrong).
>
> Michael
>
> --
> Michael Lemke
> Sternwarte Bamberg, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
> (address@hidden)