Perl-5.10.README: outdated information

["Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit dot haase at gmail dot com>]

Hello Reini,

the Perl README states:
===
- The CPAN repository and build directory *must* reside in a path
  mounted in binmode:

    mount -s -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan
    mount -u -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan

  where username is your home path and cygwin / windows username.
  After mounting like this it should work with only few warnings or
  completely without problems, depending on your environment settings
  for the CYGWIN variable.
===

However there were changes, obviously the mount utility changed:

$ mount -s -b -f c:/cygwin/home/Gerrit/.cpan /home/Gerrit/.cpan
mount: unknown option -- s
Usage: mount [OPTION] [<win32path> <posixpath>]
       mount -a
       mount <posixpath>
Display information about mounted filesystems, or mount a filesystem

  -a, --all                     mount all filesystems mentioned in fstab
  -c, --change-cygdrive-prefix  change the cygdrive path prefix to <posixpath>
  -f, --force                   force mount, don't warn about missing mount
                                point directories
  -h, --help                    output usage information and exit
  -m, --mount-entries           write fstab entries to replicate mount points
                                and cygdrive prefixes
  -o, --options X[,X...]        specify mount options
  -p, --show-cygdrive-prefix    show user and/or system cygdrive path prefix
  -v, --version                 output version information and exit

Valid options are:
acl,auto,binary,bind,cygexec,dos,exec,ihash,noacl,nosuid,notexec,nouser
,override,posix=0,posix=1,text,user


I just noticed this, no idea if it is still needed, and which command
to issue to ensure the binmode option for the CPAN path.

regards,
Gerrit

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