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Re: mount command and text/binary mode


At 06:45 PM 4/2/2001, TaKeDa wrote:
>Hello cygwin,
>
>
>
>$ mount
>Device              Directory           Type         Flags
>c:\SERVER\Apache\cgi-bin  /mnt/cgi            user         binmode
>C:\SERVER\eggdrop\1.5.3  /mnt/egg            user         binmode
>C:\CygWin\home\takeda  /home/administrator  user         binmode
>C:\CygWin\bin       /usr/bin            user         binmode
>C:\CygWin\lib       /usr/lib            user         binmode
>C:\CygWin           /                   user         binmode
>
>$ mount --show-cygdrive-prefixes
>Prefix              Type         Flags
>/cygdrive           user         binmode
>
>As you see all mounting points are set into binary mode, but I notice
>that cygwin still write files in text mode and this is realy anoying.


Can you give an example and provide the output of cygcheck -s -r -v on the
system from which you ran the example?


>Right now I use Windows 2000 Server, I notice this problem with older
>cygwin under win98, but it disapears after some time (I guess
>upgrading helps, right now I use this same version which was working
>correctly under win98)
>
>Right now I'm trying to upgrade and I will see that problem will
>exists or not ...
>
>BTW: In registry flags are:
>for /cygdrive is 0x22
>fo other mount points is 0x02
>
>I check with registry in w98 and is the same ...
>
>
>BTW2: Why I can't add mount point to system-wide registry location?
>When I trying to use arguments -bs it displays help.


Try mount -b -s <the rest of the line>


>BTW3: It's normal that when I'm mounting in place of win32patch
>Instead of backslashes I need to use shlashes?
>ie. C:\WINDOWS I need write as C:/WINDOWS to make mount command
>working.


In bash/sh, yes.  If you want to use backslashes, you need to escape them.
Remember, if you're in a UNIX-like shell, you're in a UNIX-like world!;-)



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