Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040728093719.033b9940@pop.prospeed.net> X-Sender: Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:51:36 -0400 To: Joseph , "cygwin@cygwin.com" From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: follow-up re textmode problem for relative paths, nobinmode env variable In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:15 AM 7/28/2004, you wrote: >a few weeks ago I asked about what >mount commands to use in order to >simulate the set-up I had on an >older version of Cygwin which had >textmode as the default for opening >files > >I did not explicitly change >the default mount settings from >that version, which it reports >as > >c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode, noumount) This just states that applications that have not explicitly stated whether a file should be opened as text or binary will open files found under /cygdrive/c as text, presuming a later mount with a more specific path doesn't override this setting. It won't set any and all applications to use text mounts by default. It's a useful "hack" for porting. But an application should be properly ported so that using these mounts is a no-op really. >with the latest version that I have >upgraded to however, there is no >combination of mount commands that >I can find that allows me to open >all files in textmode by default > >in particular, if I mount / to be >textmode, I can get this behavior >only if I use the full absolute >path of the file I am opening, >but if I use a relative path >specification, file is opened >as binary data > >it would be great if I could set >the CYGWIN environment variable to >nobinmode in order to avoid this >problem (and also to avoid having >to set up mounts for every other >drive besides C: that I might use), >but doing so seems to have no effect > >I am not sure if this is a problem >with how I am doing it, or if that >setting for the environment variable >is no longer honored > >someone who replied to my earlier >post on this topic said that I >should not expect the Cygwin >module to support nobinmode >in the environment variable >anymore > >yet the lastest documentation I >can find in the download package >seems to indicate that this is >supposed to still be a viable option It is. But your desired use doesn't match it's functionality. See . >any clarification on either of >these 2 related points would be >appreciated If the above isn't enough for you, I think you need to provide a clear example of what you're doing with information about your environment if you want further comment/clarification. See for more details on how to proceed here. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/