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RE: text / binary mounts (sorry)
- To: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker at butlermfg dot com>, Matthew Lowther <m dot lowther at standard-platforms dot co dot uk>, "'cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: text / binary mounts (sorry)
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:13:52 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- "Parker, Ron" <rdparker@butlermfg.com> wrote:
> > BUT is there anything I can setup to make all drives act as
> > binary mounts
> > automatically.
> > The problem is that if a drive isn't mounted at all, then I
> > get dos line
> > feeds at the end of each line.
>
> set CYGWIN=binmode causes even unmounted directories and files to be
> accessed in binary mode. You can set this in autoexec.bat for Win9x or in
> the System Control Panel applet for NT/2000.
>
Are you sure of this, Ron? AFAIK CYGWIN=binmode only affects the pipes and
redirection and not file I/O. BTW CYGWIN=binmode is the default.
Cheers,
=====
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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