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: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:21:40 -0700 (PDT) From: To: Pierre DOT Humblet AT eurecom DOT fr CC: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com In-reply-to: <3.0.5.32.19990614211422.008908d0@pop.ne.mediaone.net> (Pierre DOT Humblet AT eurecom DOT fr) Subject: Re: text vs binary again (ftp) :-( X-Sender: phumblet AT pop DOT ne DOT mediaone DOT net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:14:22 -0400 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The target of a symbolic link is opened according to the rules for the target partition (unmounted in your case). What that is depends on the version & date of Cygwin you are using. In your case, looks like it's "text". Pierre At 05:03 PM 6/14/99 -0700, you wrote: >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 :-) Unfortunately, if I mount the foreign drives (binary mount), I am right back where I started - I get the problem with files underneath the mount point not accessible through relative paths. I reported this before and it seems that it was only fixed in a March 28 snapshot (which I have tried before and it caused other problems). Looks like a "no exit" situation to me :-( -- 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