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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:11:56 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: follow-up re textmode problem for relative paths, nobinmode env variable
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On Jul 28 01:15, Joseph wrote:
> a few weeks ago I asked about what
> mount commands to use in order to
> simulate the set-up I had on an
> older version of Cygwin which had
> textmode as the default for opening
> files
> 
> I did not explicitly change
> the default mount settings from
> that version, which it reports
> as
> 
> c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode, noumount)
> 
> with the latest version that I have
> upgraded to however, there is no
> combination of mount commands that
> I can find that allows me to open
> all files in textmode by default
> 
> in particular, if I mount / to be
> textmode, I can get this behavior
> only if I use the full absolute
> path of the file I am opening,
> but if I use a relative path
> specification, file is opened
> as binary data

That's unlikely.  http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Corinna

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