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Re: c:/ seems to be accessed in binary even if cygwin is configured as textmode by default (documentation alert)


On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:53:11AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Sep  1 11:01, Arnaud Mouiche wrote:
>> Cygwin User's 
>> Guide  http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-textbinary.html says
>> [...]
>> b) If the file appears to reside on a file system that is not mounted (as 
>> can happen when the path contains a drive letter), the default is text.
>> 
>> In understand that a windows path ([...] the path contains a drive letter ) 
>> should be seen as text file.
>> This not what I experience.
>
>Hmm, time to change the documentation, I guess.

Correct.  There's really no need for more discussion about this.  This behavior
has been in place for years.  It's time the documentation was changed to
reflect it.

cgf

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