From:	michael AT weiser DOT saale-net DOT de (Michael Weiser)
Subject:	Re: CYGWIN32 and mount modes
25 May 1998 18:26:08 -0700 :
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To:	Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Hi Geoffrey,

You wrote:

>> Could someone explain me what the CYGWIN32 environment variable with
>> its values tty, notty, binmode etc. is for or point me to some source
>> of _complete_ documentation? As I read in the list almost every
>> setting has some benefit but also some disadvantage.
>If there were only advantages and no disadvantages, we wouldn't have
>the option.
Mhmm, sounds logically... ;-)))

>With tty mode, ttys are more Unix-like but will prevent some
>non-Cygwin32 console apps from working correctly.
Does notty produce the appropriate opposite of that behaviour? And if
so, what is binmode for?

bye

Michael
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