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Re: CYGWIN32 and mount modes
- To: Geoffrey Noer <noer at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: CYGWIN32 and mount modes
- From: michael at weiser dot saale-net dot de (Michael Weiser)
- Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 04:02:47 GMT
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <356aacee.5008021@mail> <19980524163008.A21084@cygnus.com>
Hi Geoffrey,
You wrote:
>> Could someone explain me what the CYGWIN32 environment variable with
>> its values tty, notty, binmode etc. is for or point me to some source
>> of _complete_ documentation? As I read in the list almost every
>> setting has some benefit but also some disadvantage.
>If there were only advantages and no disadvantages, we wouldn't have
>the option.
Mhmm, sounds logically... ;-)))
>With tty mode, ttys are more Unix-like but will prevent some
>non-Cygwin32 console apps from working correctly.
Does notty produce the appropriate opposite of that behaviour? And if
so, what is binmode for?
bye
Michael
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