From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: What does Dos mode vs unix mode mean when you install cygwin Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 01:37:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010717103746.D15396@cygbert.vinschen.de> References: <005d01c10e72$9cdd6460$9865fea9@timayum4srqln4> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00888.html On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:43:14PM -0700, Tim Prince wrote: > Entirely a matter of preference, and what the non-cygwin apps you intend > to use prefer. For me, the hardest part of "unix" files is remembering > to always ftp "binary" and not to attach files to Windows e-mail unless > they are suffixed .doc or converted. More and more apps can deal with > either kind of file. UNIX = binary = faster read/write (no CR/LF conversion needed) The Cygwin ftp from the inetd package should use binary as default when connecting to a UNIX system. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/