Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 10:28:08 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: c:/ seems to be accessed in binary even if cygwin is configured as textmode by default (documentation alert) Message-ID: <20040901142808.GA9891@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <6 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 20040831193832 DOT 01cc4f70 AT 172 DOT 16 DOT 0 DOT 2> <6 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 0 DOT 20040831135114 DOT 033e8c58 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net> <6 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 20040901091733 DOT 01b7e768 AT 172 DOT 16 DOT 0 DOT 2> <6 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 20040901105801 DOT 01cebc40 AT 172 DOT 16 DOT 0 DOT 2> <20040901095311 DOT GZ17670 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040901095311.GZ17670@cygbert.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:53:11AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Sep 1 11:01, Arnaud Mouiche wrote: >> Cygwin User's >> Guide http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-textbinary.html says >> [...] >> b) If the file appears to reside on a file system that is not mounted (as >> can happen when the path contains a drive letter), the default is text. >> >> In understand that a windows path ([...] the path contains a drive letter ) >> should be seen as text file. >> This not what I experience. > >Hmm, time to change the documentation, I guess. Correct. There's really no need for more discussion about this. This behavior has been in place for years. It's time the documentation was changed to reflect it. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/