----- Original Message ----- From: "Steinar Bang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 00:01 Subject: Re: changing default text type without reinstall?
> >>>>> Steinar Bang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >>>>> "Michael A Chase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>>> "Steinar Bang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> Platform: CygWin 1.3.2, CygWin/XFree86 4.1.0, Win2k > > >>> Is it possible to change from text type "Unix" to text type "DOS", > >>> without reinstall? > > >> mount --help > > The results of "mount --help", is here > <http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#MOUNT> > > > I'm guessing "mount -t" is what I should use? The explanation is > > "text files get \r\n line endings". > > > But I am unsure of how I should use this command. What exactly does > > it do? Does it insert a translation between the file system and the > > cygwin programs? I think you found most of what you needed, but did the articles you found explain enough? If not, what parts were insufficient or unclear? > > Will just running the mount command make the change persistent? I > > didn't find anything under /etc or /usr/etc that looked like a mount > > table. As you discovered, mount points are kept in the registry. One set under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and one under HKEY_CURRENT_USER. They are persistent. > Here's some more information on the cygwin mount table > <http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#MOUNT-TABLE> > > The mount table is in the registry, and running the mount command > should put the changes there. The documentation says that the mount > command can be used to add mount points, which makes it strange that > the below command failed: > > > I tried changing the mode of the /home directory > > ~$ mount -t c:\cygwin\home /home > > mount: /home: Invalid argument > > Why is "/home" an invalid argument? Have I misunderstodd what is > meant by a "posix path"? The thing that puzzles me about that error message is that it didn't complain about c:cygwinhome instead since the bash command line reader uses '\' as an escape character. The easy way to avoid that problem is to use '/' instead of '\' even in Windows paths passed to cygwin programs. There are two types of mount points, user and system. By default mount creates user (-u) mount points. These only apply to the current user and override the corresponding system mount points. Normally I only create system (-s) mount points. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.htm Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- 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/
