Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/10/29/15:16:20
You can have it both ways.
e.g.:
dir c:\text
can be mounted as
mount c:\\text /text
mount -b c:\\text /btext
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>Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 10:35:01 +0000
>To: gpasa AT omedia DOT ch
>From: Andy Piper <andyp AT parallax DOT co DOT uk>
>Subject: Re: use of mount -b
>Cc: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
>
>I have to agree with this. Using mount -b to get sergey's version of
bash
>to work seems just plain wrong. I want all my text files in a format
that
>normal windows tools can understand, I don't think mount -b does this,
does
>it?
>
>I still use the b18 distributed version of bash because it does what I
>want, bar some history problems. Using sergey's version of bash
>requires me to convert files to unix format which I don't want to do.
>
>andy
>
>At 23:16 28/10/97 -0025, you wrote:
>>I've a conceptual problem with binary mount.
>>If I mount my system as binary mount -b d:/ /
>>(text=binary)
>>make don't works and I run in a lot of problems.
>>
>>If I mount by default : mount d:/ /
>>(text!=binary)
>>everything go fine.
>>
>>So my question is why and when should I mount my system as binary ?
>
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