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Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 15:20:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bob Kline <bkline AT rksystems DOT com>
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: How to undo damage caused by cygwin tool behavior
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On Mon, 22 May 2000, Chris Faylor wrote:

> 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.
> 

Thanks, Chris.  There's only one mount point set, and it's using text
mode, so I was taken a little by surprise by the problem.  I've gotten
private email from another list member indicating that I may need to
wait for the next release, which fixes the problem.

-- 
Bob Kline


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