RE: New suggestion for setup, binary/dos-mode

["Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Markebo [mailto:flognat@flognat.myip.org] 
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 3:42 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: New suggestion for setup, binary/dos-mode
> 
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Looking at the Xfree mailinglist it seems like many people 
> have problems due to have installed with dos-mode. My thought 
> is if it is their unsurability about unix/dos, and toggling 
> that due to that.. 
> 
> Is it possible to hide it a little.. or similar, so it is not 
> so easy to toggle.. Or just us needing to tell the users more...

I think it's due to XFree86 being only partially ported. Fully ported
software works correctly on BOTH text and bin mounted drives. 
 
> Is it used anyhow??

Absolutely - that's why you keep getting complaints and confusion.

Rob

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