text / binary mounts (sorry)

[Earnie Boyd]

--- "Parker, Ron" <rdparker@butlermfg.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 

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.

Cheers,

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