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RE: file not working on executables?
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'just what i always wanted... a filing system that inserts bytes at random places all by itself!'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:41:07 +0100
- Subject: RE: file not working on executables?
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
----Original Message----
>From: Gary R. Van Sickle
>Sent: 10 September 2005 10:36
> [snip]
>>> Again, I 100% share the notion that text mounts should not be necessary.
>>> But when even such basic apps as tar get this wrong, I simply don't
>>> see how anybody can realistically entertain the idea that eliminating
>>> them will somehow solve any problems.
>>
>> You're a lucky guy that you don't have problems with textmode
>> mounts
>
> Well, yeah I guess, but again, what are these problems of which you speak?
You haven't lived until you've died in CR-CR-LF hell!
Particularly when it happens to a binary file :-(
cheers,
DaveK
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