From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: Mixed mounting doesn't seem to work 15 Dec 1997 06:42:46 -0800 Message-ID: <199712151418.GAA12577.cygnus.gnu-win32@f140.hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: russellm AT iName DOT com Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com You'll find in the mail archives a reply from Geoff Noer concerning this that mixed mode no longer functions. It was removed in an earlier version. I don't know why but I suspect that it caused a lot of headaches between cygwin and win32. - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- >Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 23:21:10 -0600 >From: Russell K Montgomery >To: Gnu-Win-32 >Subject: Mixed mounting doesn't seem to work > >I have installed CDK.EXE (B18) and Coolview on Windows 95B. I would >prefer to work in "mixed mode" because of several scripts that I have >brought over from a SCO machine that uses the same name but with >differently capitalized filenames. > >I have modified all mount points to be both mixed and binary. mount >outputs the following information: >Device Directory Type Flags >G:\emacs-19.34 /emacs native mixed,text=binary >\\.\tape1: /dev/st1 native mixed,text=binary >\\.\tape0: /dev/st0 native mixed,text=binary >\\.\b: /dev/fd1 native mixed,text=binary >\\.\a: /dev/fd0 native mixed,text=binary >G:\GNU-Win-32 / native mixed,text=binary > >The basic method I used to validate if it is working is: >bash.exe-2.01$ echo "HELLO" > test >bash.exe-2.01$ echo "Hi" > Test >bash.exe-2.01$ ls -l >-rw-r--r-- 1 500 everyone 3 Dec 14 23:18 test > >If someone could provide any input or is successfully using "Mixed" >mounting I would appreciate any feedback you could offer. > >---- >Russell Montgomery >Austin, TX, USA > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".