From: michael@weiser.saale-net.de (Michael Weiser)
Subject: Re: CYGWIN32 and mount modes
26 May 1998 09:38:55 -0700
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To: mh@mike.franken.de (Michael Hirmke)
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Heyho Michael,

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.
>
>It is not complete, but IMHO better than nothing:
[...]

Ah, thanks for that information! :)

But what is the difference between binary mounts and the binmode
setting to CYGWIN32? Is it just a global override parameter or does it
more than a binary mount?

>[no]title
As far as I understand it, it only enables/disables some display
option for the title of the DOS box:

>[no]strip_title - works in conjunction with 'title'.  Strips the path spec
>                  from what is displayed in the console title bar when the
>                  program is run.


Tschuess

Michael

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