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Re: new install of cygwin with pdksh doesn't work
- To: "Larry Hall \(RFK Partners, Inc\)" <lhall at rfk dot com>, "David M. Karr" <dkarr at tcsi dot com>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: new install of cygwin with pdksh doesn't work
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:06:04 -0800 (PST)
--- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com> wrote:
>
> >I guess this means that the default mode for unmapped directories is
> >"text" on my original installation, and "binary" for the second
> >installation. Since directories like "d:/dmk" (my home directory) are
> >not covered by the original mount table, I would get the default.
>
>
> You should be able to reset your default mode for unmapped drives using
> the --change-cygdrive-prefix setting for mount but specify the "-t" flag
> too. I haven't tried this myself so I don't know if it actually works.
>
If you chose the "Everyone" radio button, add a -s to that.
>
> >So, when I install it again, if I select the "DOS" text file type, I
> >won't have to add this mount to get files on the "D:/" drive to use
> >DOS text file mode, correct?
>
>
> Right.
>
>
> >What exactly in the "cygcheck" output (or any other place, for that
> >matter) tells me what the default text file type is?
>
>
> Nothing. cygcheck doesn't output that yet.
>
That's not true. The output of the registry data can tell you. 0x00000020 is
text mode 0x00000022 is binary mode.
Cheers,
=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
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