text / binary mounts (sorry)

[Chris Faylor]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 07:59:15PM +0400, Egor Duda wrote:
>Friday, 02 June, 2000 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>EB> The command `mount --help' might have helped in this instance.
>
>EB> mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix /cygdrive
>
>btw,  i think this should go to the FAQ. I've stumbled over this issue
>myself some time ago :) Since i all my explicit mounts are binary, and
>CYGWIN=binmode,  i've got a nice surprise when i added new disk (which
>mounts  as  /cygdrive/h)  and immediately got all those nice text-mode
>features. it take me to look at the sources to find out what happened.

I'm always thrilled when people inspect the sources but this is fairly
well documented in the Cygwin user's guide.

I'll see about getting it in the FAQ, though.

cgf

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