Re: mount -b C: / breaks /etc/profile &friends

["Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd at hotmail dot com>]

After mounting to text=binary you have to get rid of all \r in all 
scripts.  Use the following with caution (ie: only on scripts):

cp scriptfile /tmp/scriptfile
tr -d "\r" < /tmp/scriptfile > scriptfile

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>Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:34:47 -0400
>To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
>From: "Bruce S. Skinner" <skinner@drea.dnd.ca>
>Subject: mount -b C: / breaks /etc/profile &friends
>
>I have been having troubling building the terminfo database required by
>ncurses and have been told I need to have disks mounted text=binary for 
it
>to work.  After I do "mount -b c: /" bash starts really having trouble.
>All the alias' defined in .bash_profile break and when I set PS1 the 
cursor
>goes back to the beginning of line after writing the bash prompt.  It
>appears that carriage returns are being read from the .bash_profile as 
data
>instead of indicating end of line.  Is there a fix for this? 
Environment is
>gnuwin32 b18.5 & WinNt4.0.
>
>regards :-)
>Bruce S.
>
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