From: Pierre DOT Humblet AT eurecom DOT fr (Pierre A. Humblet)
Subject: Re: Answer to your text == binary question
22 Jan 1999 17:51:13 -0800
Message-ID: <199901230122.RAA01801.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@cygnus.com>
References: <19990121185540 DOT B15389 AT cygnus DOT com>
To: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

At 06:55 PM 1/21/99 -0800, Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>That all said, I'd love to hear your opinions about all this, and
>how automounts should behave with respect to text vs. binmode should
>affect the automounts (the question Pierre asked me in conjunction
>with his helping write better Cygwin documentation).
>
>Perhaps the CYGWIN environment variable should determine the mode of
>automounts?
>
I assume there WILL BE a clear and convenient way to change the mode
after the default automount has taken place.
This being the case any default (e.g. text) is defendable. I would like
to see CYGWIN=[no]binmode abolished, thus I am not advocating using it.

cgf's suggestion (use the mode of the automount point) is ingenious
but IMHO of little value. Most people have few drives. Understanding the
various options to set the default and then setting the default and then
setting the mode anyway, if the new default is no good for a special case,
will require more effort than simply changing the mode... (long sentence,
on purpose). Simply use a FIXED default.

I have one wish: somehow allow "umount /" and then "mount c:/xxx /"  from
DOS (not very easy currently).

Pierre