From:	John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com (John Wiersba)
Subject:	RE: Help:getting man to work?
23 Oct 1998 16:45:18 -0700 :
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To:	"'randyc AT fc DOT hp DOT com'" <randyc AT fc DOT hp DOT com>,
	"'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'"
	<gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

Try "mount" to see how they are mounted.  When I do this, I see:
   > mount
   Device           Directory           Type        Flags
   \\.\tape1:       /dev/st1            native      text=binary
   \\.\tape0:       /dev/st0            native      text=binary
   \\.\b:           /dev/fd1            native      text=binary  
   \\.\a:           /dev/fd0            native      text=binary
   C:               /                   native      text=binary
which means that all my mounts are binary.  A non-binary mount will say
"text!=binary".  You can
fiddle the binary flag by using regedt32 (on NT) or regedit to change
the fbinary flag for each 
mount under hkey_current_user/software/cygnus solutions/cygwin.dll
setup/b15.0/mounts/*.

The behavior of the mount command is very flaky in my experience.  As
you can see, I don't use any mounts except for the root dir.  All my
other mounts are done with symlinks (which are flaky as well).

BTW, see my earlier post today about using less.  You may need to set
TERM to ansi instead of linux (and get the ncurses package).

John Wiersba (john DOT wiersba AT medstat DOT com)

-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Campbell [mailto:randyc AT fc DOT hp DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 1998 5:10 PM
To: Michael Hirmke; gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: Help: getting man to work?


>>What else am I missing?
>
>Do you have binary mounts ?
>They are *absolutely* necessary for these packages.


Being somewhat new to this environment, I must confess I don't know.

How can I tell, and how can I create them if necessary?

Thanks,
Randy

PS: thanks for earlier response referring me to set and export TERM to
linux,
but I had already done that.
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