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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 11:13:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Nicolas Christin <nicolas AT cs DOT virginia DOT edu>
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To: Max Bowsher <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Detecting text type in a shell script
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:

> Nicolas Christin wrote:
> >
> > How can I detect what text type was chosen at install time? (So that I
> > can appropriately set/unset my cygwin-unix-type variable.)
>
> man mount

Max, thanks.

OK... I had actually checked that, but it didn't come to me as
straightforward how to use it for my particular problem. Can I just
assume that if I don't see any "textmode" field in the mount table, then
everything is fine?

More specifically, does something of the kind:

#!/bin/sh
# test we're in binmode

mount | grep textmode >/dev/null 2>&1

if [ "$?" -eq "0" ]; then
        # found text modes - probably bad
        bail();
else
        proceed();
fi;

would do? (I don't have a DOS-type installed Cygwin available at the
moment, so I'm doing this blind and can't test it...)

Thanks again,
-- 
Nicolas

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