Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 17:29:08 -0400 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: text / binary mounts (sorry) Message-ID: <20000602172908.A3086@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <200006022116.OAA23714@cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200006022116.OAA23714@cygnus.com>; from rdparker@butlermfg.com on Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 04:14:29PM -0500 On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 04:14:29PM -0500, Parker, Ron wrote: >> >So is there anyway to have 'echo Hello>//h/junk' produce a >> 6-byte file? >> >> Yes. You use the mount command that was mentioned previously >> in this thread. > >If you are referring to 'mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix /cygdrive', I >tested it before I sent the original email and again after I recieved your >response. Even after doing so, > echo Hello>/cygdrive/h/junk yields 6 bytes > echo Hello>//h/junk yields 7 bytes > >If, on the other hand, you are referring to something like 'mount -b H:\\ >//h', it returns without error, nothing shows up in the output from 'mount', >and I still get a 7 byte file. > >I even tried 'mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix /' to no avail and 'mount -b >--change-cygdrive-prefix /' gave a "mount failed: Invalid argument" message. > >I may just be thick-headed but I didn't get what mount command you were >referring to. I was referring to using the --change-cygdrive-prefix option. I guess I thought that it would affect the //h usage too. But apparently it doesn't. Since the //h usage is deprecated, I'm not going to worry too much about this. I don't think that you want to change your cygdrive prefix to /. That is really not going to do what you want, I suspect. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com