Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/12/15/06:42:46
You'll find in the mail archives a reply from Geoff Noer concerning this
that mixed mode no longer functions. It was removed in an earlier
version.
I don't know why but I suspect that it caused a lot of headaches between
cygwin and win32.
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>Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 23:21:10 -0600
>From: Russell K Montgomery <russellm AT iName DOT com>
>To: Gnu-Win-32 <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
>Subject: Mixed mounting doesn't seem to work
>
>I have installed CDK.EXE (B18) and Coolview on Windows 95B. I would
>prefer to work in "mixed mode" because of several scripts that I have
>brought over from a SCO machine that uses the same name but with
>differently capitalized filenames.
>
>I have modified all mount points to be both mixed and binary. mount
>outputs the following information:
>Device Directory Type Flags
>G:\emacs-19.34 /emacs native mixed,text=binary
>\\.\tape1: /dev/st1 native mixed,text=binary
>\\.\tape0: /dev/st0 native mixed,text=binary
>\\.\b: /dev/fd1 native mixed,text=binary
>\\.\a: /dev/fd0 native mixed,text=binary
>G:\GNU-Win-32 / native mixed,text=binary
>
>The basic method I used to validate if it is working is:
>bash.exe-2.01$ echo "HELLO" > test
>bash.exe-2.01$ echo "Hi" > Test
>bash.exe-2.01$ ls -l
>-rw-r--r-- 1 500 everyone 3 Dec 14 23:18 test
>
>If someone could provide any input or is successfully using "Mixed"
>mounting I would appreciate any feedback you could offer.
>
>----
>Russell Montgomery
>Austin, TX, USA
>
>
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