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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 14:52:41 -0400
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Subject: Re: How to undo damage caused by cygwin tool behavior
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005221439040.15280-100000@rksystems.com>; from bkline@rksystems.com on Mon, May 22, 2000 at 02:48:25PM -0400

On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 02:48:25PM -0400, Bob Kline wrote:
>Through my own lack of attentiveness, I caused an installation of Cygwin
>to be placed at the root of the D: drive of one of our servers (I had
>been used to the practice of the older versions of installing themselves
>with several layers of subdirectories under the real location of the
>tools).  This caused lots of our operations to break (for example, make
>and rcsdiff) because the Cygwin tools, in spite of the statement in the
>FAQ to the contrary, appear to process text files in binary mode, and
>then choke on the carriage returns that standard editing tools insert in
>the Microsoft world.  Is there any way I can counteract this behavior,
>or do I need to go back to the backup tapes and undo the damage by
>removing the Cygwin tools from d:\bin?  I've looked through the docs,
>and I found the information on CYGWIN and "nobinmode" but that didn't
>seem to have any effect, whether I was in a COMMAND shell or a bash
>shell (and yes, I did set CYGWIN before invoking bash).

Look at the documentation for the mount command.  It should provide you
with the information that you need.

cgf

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