Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/01/03/12:57:12
>>>>> "Earnie" == Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com> writes:
Earnie> --- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com> wrote:
>>
>> >I guess this means that the default mode for unmapped directories is
>> >"text" on my original installation, and "binary" for the second
>> >installation. Since directories like "d:/dmk" (my home directory) are
>> >not covered by the original mount table, I would get the default.
>>
>> You should be able to reset your default mode for unmapped drives using
>> the --change-cygdrive-prefix setting for mount but specify the "-t" flag
>> too. I haven't tried this myself so I don't know if it actually works.
Earnie> If you chose the "Everyone" radio button, add a -s to that.
>> >So, when I install it again, if I select the "DOS" text file type, I
>> >won't have to add this mount to get files on the "D:/" drive to use
>> >DOS text file mode, correct?
>>
>> Right.
>>
>> >What exactly in the "cygcheck" output (or any other place, for that
>> >matter) tells me what the default text file type is?
>>
>> Nothing. cygcheck doesn't output that yet.
Earnie> That's not true. The output of the registry data can tell you. 0x00000020 is
Earnie> text mode 0x00000022 is binary mode.
Sorry for needing to rehash this, but could someone tell me EXACTLY
what I need to execute to permanently change the default text file
type to DOS? I've tried numerous variations of what's described here,
and I can't get it to work on a third installation of this (where the
user neglected to select "DOS" on the initial install).
I've tried the following:
mount -ts --change-cygdrive-prefix /cygdrive
mount -ts --change-cygdrive-prefix /d
mount -t --change-cygdrive-prefix /d
These all just echo the usage message.
After the following:
mount -t d: /d
I get "mount: warning - /d does not exist". Doing "mount" after this
shows a new mount entry in textmode, but running "ksh" still gets the
usual error.
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