From: John DOT Turner AT pobox DOT com (John A. Turner) Subject: Re: B19 questions 3 Mar 1998 18:06:24 -0800 Message-ID: <34FBF805.C3880902.cygnus.gnu-win32@POBox.com> References: <199803021113 DOT AA27899 AT jade DOT risc DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: GNU-Win32 Axel Riese wrote: > I plan to upgrade to B19 in the next few days (and I'm really looking > forward to doing this). So far I've only read the release notes and faq's, > but some items are rather unclear to me at this point. > > Maybe someone who already installed the new version could help me with the > following problems: > > What about binary/text mounts ??? As far as I know, B19 comes with two > different shells, bash and sh (I guess sh is the default, e.g. for > make with MAKE_MODE=UNIX). Do they expect UNIX or DOS/Win like > shell scripts ? Is the mount stuff still stored in the registry ? > If so, how does CYGWIN32=[no]binmode work then ? I'm quite confused about this as well. I was expecting b19 to be like coolview and require text=binary mounts, but unless I missed it, I didn't notice anything in the release notes about this. And indeed mount now reports: /$ mount Device Directory Type Flags \\.\tape1: /dev/st1 native text!=binary \\.\tape0: /dev/st0 native text!=binary \\.\b: /dev/fd1 native text!=binary \\.\a: /dev/fd0 native text!=binary C: / native text!=binary Can someone explain? -John - 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".