From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Castle, Eric" To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: What does Dos mode vs unix mode mean when you install cygwin Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 17:16:00 -0000 Message-id: X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00866.html When using the installer to install Cygwin 1.3.2, there is a step where it asks what the default text file type should be, with the 2 choices being either dos or unix. What is the difference between the 2 choices? Is this just how cygwin, including processing files in perl, uses either \r\n or \n for line termination? I don't recall the old installer program (called full.exe) ask that question back on B18. Any recomendation on which type to use? I've been choosing "dos" but not sure what that is really doing vs choosing unix. Thanks, Eric -- 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/