Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <393801F2.491087D5@veritas.com> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 11:50:26 -0700 From: Bob McGowan Organization: VERITAS Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: text / binary mounts (sorry) References: <20000602133513 DOT 22334 DOT qmail AT web114 DOT yahoomail DOT com> <14832 DOT 000602 AT logos-m DOT ru> <20000602142612 DOT F1589 AT cygnus DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is there any way to determine the current status of the cygdrive-prefix? I don't see anything in the normal mount output (not that I would expect to), but there does not appear to be any way to check this, short of checking the registry. Thanks. Chris Faylor wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 07:59:15PM +0400, Egor Duda wrote: > >Friday, 02 June, 2000 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com wrote: > > > >EB> The command `mount --help' might have helped in this instance. > > > >EB> mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix /cygdrive > > > >btw, i think this should go to the FAQ. I've stumbled over this issue > >myself some time ago :) Since i all my explicit mounts are binary, and > >CYGWIN=binmode, i've got a nice surprise when i added new disk (which > >mounts as /cygdrive/h) and immediately got all those nice text-mode > >features. it take me to look at the sources to find out what happened. > > I'm always thrilled when people inspect the sources but this is fairly > well documented in the Cygwin user's guide. > > I'll see about getting it in the FAQ, though. > > cgf > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software rmcgowan AT veritas DOT com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com