text / binary mounts (sorry)

Parker, Ron rdparker@butlermfg.com
Fri Jun 2 10:01:00 GMT 2000


> BUT is there anything I can setup to make all drives act as 
> binary mounts
> automatically. 
> The problem is that if a drive isn't mounted at all, then I 
> get dos line
> feeds at the end of each line.

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.



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