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To: David Starks-Browning <starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk>
Cc: Peter Davis <pd AT world DOT std DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Changing from textmode to binmode mounting
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From: Peter Davis <pd AT world DOT std DOT com>
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Date: 01 Jul 2002 17:24:39 +0000
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David Starks-Browning <starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk> writes:

> On  1 Jul 02, Peter Davis writes:
> > 
> > For some reason, my Win2000 machine has everything mounted in
> > textmode, although my WinNT machine correctly mounts in binmode.  In
> > textmode, my fetchmail spool file is unreadable by MH and other mail
> > utilities?
> > 
> > Can someone tell me how to switch from textmode to binmode?  I tried
> > the command
> > 
> >     mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix cygdrive
> > 
> > as suggested in the faq, but it seemed to have no effect.  
> 
> You say "everything" is mounted in textmode, but that command will
> only change the cygdrive mounts.  Also user mounts will override
> system mounts (or vice versa?).  This can be confusing if you change
> the system mount but the user mount hides the change (or vice versa?).

Here's what I have:

$ mount
C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type user (textmode)
C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type user (textmode)
C:\cygwin on / type user (textmode)
c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumount)
d: on /cygdrive/d type user (textmode,noumount)
m: on /cygdrive/m type user (textmode,noumount)
q: on /cygdrive/q type user (textmode,noumount)
r: on /cygdrive/r type user (textmode,noumount)

I've tried

    mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix cygdrive
    mount: cygdrive: Invalid argument

I also tried

    mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix /cygdrive
    mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix /cygwin


No messages, but nothing changes.  Am I missing something?

Thanks,


-pd



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