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Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:13:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Subject: RE: text / binary mounts (sorry)
To: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker@butlermfg.com>,
        Matthew Lowther <m.lowther@standard-platforms.co.uk>,
        "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
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--- "Parker, Ron" <rdparker@butlermfg.com> wrote:
> > BUT is there anything I can setup to make all drives act as 
> > binary mounts
> > automatically. 
> > The problem is that if a drive isn't mounted at all, then I 
> > get dos line
> > feeds at the end of each line.
> 
> set CYGWIN=binmode causes even unmounted directories and files to be
> accessed in binary mode.  You can set this in autoexec.bat for Win9x or in
> the System Control Panel applet for NT/2000.
> 

Are you sure of this, Ron?  AFAIK CYGWIN=binmode only affects the pipes and
redirection and not file I/O.  BTW CYGWIN=binmode is the default.

Cheers,

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   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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