From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: Answer to your text == binary question
22 Jan 1999 00:32:13 -0800
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To: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
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        "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT eurecom DOT fr>

> I thought that since the automounts exist in the mount table, that
> the binmode status of the automount would be the logical way to
> control this.
> 
> cgf

I meant using binmode status of the CYGWIN env variable to determine
what binmode to associate with the automounts.  The status would be
stored in the same flags area as text or binmode for normal mounts.
The problem is that since the user isn't choosing whether or not to
add an automount, it's not possible for them to specify binmode in the
standard way (an argument to the mount command).

(Maybe I'm not understanding you?)

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Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com