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RE: Another newbie onboard...


[about binary mounts]

>See above - there is nothing the like on a Unix system, because they
>are only there to emulate Unix on Win32.

Actually, I'd say that _all_ mounts on Unix systems are binary mounts.
It is the special text mounts, converting CRLF <-> LF, that are there to
emulate Unix on Win32.

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Ed Avis <http://members.tripod.com/~mave>
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