Detecting text type in a shell script

2003-02-06 Thread Nicolas Christin
Hi, I have been looking into the mailing-list archives and the manual but could not find any answer to the following problem, which will certainly sound trivial. I am release-engineering some software developed under Unix. The thing installs just fine under Cygwin when the UNIX file text type has

Re: Detecting text type in a shell script

2003-02-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Nicolas Christin wrote: I have been looking into the mailing-list archives and the manual but could not find any answer to the following problem, which will certainly sound trivial. I am release-engineering some software developed under Unix. The thing installs just fine under Cygwin when the

Re: Detecting text type in a shell script

2003-02-06 Thread Nicolas Christin
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Nicolas Christin wrote: How can I detect what text type was chosen at install time? (So that I can appropriately set/unset my cygwin-unix-type variable.) man mount Max, thanks. OK... I had actually checked that, but it didn't come to me as

Re: Detecting text type in a shell script

2003-02-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Nicolas Christin wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Nicolas Christin wrote: How can I detect what text type was chosen at install time? (So that I can appropriately set/unset my cygwin-unix-type variable.) man mount Max, thanks. OK... I had actually checked that, but it

Re: Detecting text type in a shell script

2003-02-06 Thread Randall R Schulz
Nicolas, At 08:13 2003-02-06, Nicolas Christin wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Nicolas Christin wrote: How can I detect what text type was chosen at install time? (So that I can appropriately set/unset my cygwin-unix-type variable.) man mount Max, thanks. OK... I had

Re: Detecting text type in a shell script

2003-02-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Nicolas Christin wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Have you tried linking you app with -lbinmode ? That should force all file access to be binary, whatever the mount. No - but that's a very good point - worth trying out. Thanks a bunch. You haven't said exactly what your program

Re: Detecting text type in a shell script

2003-02-06 Thread mstucky5
- Original Message - From: Nicolas Christin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:51 AM Subject: Re: Detecting text type in a shell script On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Have you tried linking you app with -lbinmode ? That should force