c:/ seems to be accessed in binary even if cygwin is configured as textmode by default

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Sep 1 09:52:00 GMT 2004


On Sep  1 11:01, Arnaud Mouiche wrote:
> Cygwin User's 
> Guide  http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-textbinary.html says
> [...]
> b) If the file appears to reside on a file system that is not mounted (as 
> can happen when the path contains a drive letter), the default is text.
> 
> In understand that a windows path ([...] the path contains a drive letter ) 
> should be seen as text file.
> This not what I experience.

Hmm, time to change the documentation, I guess.

Corinna

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