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RE: text / binary mounts (sorry)
- To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com, "Parker, Ron" <rdparker at butlermfg dot com>, Matthew Lowther <m dot lowther at standard-platforms dot co dot uk>, "'cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: text / binary mounts (sorry)
- From: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker at butlermfg dot com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 12:24:49 -0500
> > set CYGWIN=binmode causes even unmounted directories and files to be
> > accessed in binary mode. You can set this in autoexec.bat
> for Win9x or in
> > the System Control Panel applet for NT/2000.
> >
>
> Are you sure of this, Ron? AFAIK CYGWIN=binmode only affects
> the pipes and
> redirection and not file I/O. BTW CYGWIN=binmode is the default.
ITIWTW, I thought it worked that way, however a quick test shows I am wrong.
I would have sworn CYGWIN=binmode used to apply to all file opens.
Sorry for the confusion.
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