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Re[2]: text / binary mounts (sorry)
- To: cygwin-dev <cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re[2]: text / binary mounts (sorry)
- From: Egor Duda <deo at logos-m dot ru>
- Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 17:32:08 +0400
- Organization: DEO
- References: <20000602214630.B3577@cygnus.com>
- Reply-To: Egor Duda <deo at logos-m dot ru>
Hi!
Saturday, 03 June, 2000 Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com wrote:
CF> On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 04:41:27PM -0500, Parker, Ron wrote:
>>> Since the //h usage is deprecated, I'm not going to worry too
>>> much about this.
>>
>>The larger point, IMHO, is that, 'echo Hello>//machine/sharename/filename'
>>also produces 7 bytes. This leads me to the question of, "How does one
>>default UNC file access to binary mode?" I know it works if the UNC path is
>>mounted and you access it via the mount point, but what should happen when
>>going directly to the UNC path?
CF> Right now, the same thing happens as has happened for the last three or
CF> four years with cygwin. It defaults to text mode.
btw, do you think there should be a way to control this. something
like CYGWIN=filebinmode ? if yes, i'm ready to submit a patch.
hmm, "filebinmode" seems a bit confusing, but don't see more
descriptive word.
Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19