From: michael@weiser.saale-net.de (Michael Weiser) Subject: Re: CYGWIN32 and mount modes 25 May 1998 18:26:08 -0700 Message-ID: <3568ea4e.312509.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail> References: <356aacee.5008021@mail> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Geoffrey Noer Cc: gnu-win32@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 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".