Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-Id: Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 17:03:16 -0700 (PDT) From: To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: text vs binary again (ftp) :-( After trying for a long time to get some very basic functionality with a text mount setup, I gave up and started from scratch, with binary mount only. I have only a single entry in my mount table: d: / native text=binary Instead of making mount entries for drives shared from other WinBlows machines, I created symlinks for them, for example: amazon:~$ ls -l cstrans lrwxrwxrwx 1 administ None 22 Jun 2 19:43 cstrans -> //l/cstrans where L: is mapped to another machine's F: in the WinBlows GUI. Overall, this seems to work much better. Gone are all bash troubles with history, sourcing the startup files, etc. I compiled man_db and now feel _almost_ like on a true Unixoid system (working as root all the time, of course :-) One trouble remains, though. When I ftp a file from a Unix server to one of the symlinked foreign drives, newline -> CRLF conversion happens, no matter what I do. That is, even if the ftp transfer mode is set to binary. On the other hand, transfers to my local drive work OK. This is with the ftp client from Sergey's inetutils. I wonder if I should compile an ftp client myself instead? Has anyone else seen this problem, and can you suggest a way out (other then using horrible dysfunctional WinBlows clients, of course :-) Best regards, -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324 San Francisco, California 94107 U.S.A. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com