--- Matt Swift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been using Cygwin with a value CYGWIN="ntsec ntea binmode > tty" > for a long time under Win2k and WinXP with NTFS hard drives. On > rereading the documentation, it seems to me that the "ntea" and > "ntsec" values select different solutions to the same problem, and > that there is no reason to set both. Is this a correct > interpretation? Which method is used when both flags are set? > Which > is the best one to use? If I switch to using just one of them, > will I > encounter any problems due to having used the other?
You only need ntea if your hdd's are FAT, otherwise ntsec is quite sufficient for your needs. I have no idea what happens when you set both flags on NTFS, other then waste space. Cheers, Nicholas __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.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/
