Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:12:49 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: Cygwin Subject: Re: Problem with F:/ and /cygdrive/f/ Message-ID: <20010112141249.A9969@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: Cygwin References: <4.3.1.2.20010112115951.0223dc80@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <3A5F3FE5.FF805015@yahoo.com> <20010112135512.A9768@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <20010112135512.A9768@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 01:55:12PM -0500 On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 01:55:12PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:33:25PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: >>"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote: >>> At 11:54 AM 1/12/2001, Joey Mukherjee wrote: >>> >I have a program which works perfectly when I tell it to read from a file at >>> >/cygdrive/f/ . However, when I set the directory to F:/, the program no >>> >longer works. >>> >>> The output of cygcheck -s -r -v and a test case showing the problem would be >>> helpful. >>> >> >>Not for this Larry. >> >>FAQ ALERT!! >> >>If you access a file via it's drive letter name, it will open it in text >>mode by default. Chris, will adding binmode to CYGWIN help in this >>case? > >Hmm. Maybe. I don't know for sure. > >I'm not sure that I knew this either but now that I think of it, you're >probably right Earnie. It's unfortunate and surprising behavior. I'll >have to think about the best way to fix this. Again, I catch myself for typing while in a conference call. By "this", I meant the fact that x: stuff always defaults to text mode. That is surprising behavior and I'm going to do something about it. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple