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RE: New suggestion for setup, binary/dos-mode
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Andrew Markebo" <flognat at flognat dot myip dot org>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 08:56:58 +1100
- Subject: RE: New suggestion for setup, binary/dos-mode
> -----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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