On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 08:28:08AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: >I know you already have your answer but for the record, this is the >wrong list for this post. This is a [EMAIL PROTECTED] type of post. >Cygwin-apps is to be used for porters to discuss porting programs. It's >not to post questions and concerns about using those programs. Please >keep this list on topic. > >Those answering an off topic post in this list, please be kind enough to >redirect it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks, Earnie. I was hoping that someone would point out that the docs are probably not wrong and go into details about why they are not wrong. An MS-DOS path is the right thing for the first non-option argument to mount. However, if you're running in a bash shell you have to remember that '\' has special meaning. cgf >Michael Salmon wrote: >> hi folks, >> I'm trying to mount a drive as textmode rather then the automatic >> binmode. I know mount for linux and freebsd but it's not acting >> AFAICT correctly. >> This is what I'm trying and the error I get >> >> mount -t -s c:\cygwin / >> mount: /: Invalid argument >> >> I tried escaping and quoting the / in case windows dislikes /, even >> though I'm using the cygwin bash. Didn't work. Basically I want >> to edit in vim files I checkout with Sourcesafe. >> >> If anyone knows how to make vim read windows files , that would also >> solve my problem - I'm looking into that also.. >> >> Also, after I couldnt get the drive mounted as textmode or binmode >> I decided a reboot was in order, hoping it would at least return >> to it's default binmode. After a reboot the drive does not get remounted >> and now things are generally messed up. >> >> cheers, >> ms- > >_________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. http://sources.redhat.com/ http://www.redhat.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
