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From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@ipass.net>
To: "Ulrich Koehler" <koehler@mvt.tu-clausthal.de>
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Subject: Re: Problems with libtiff!
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 08:45:53 -0400
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> "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" wrote:
>
> > that is where the problem is, at least i noticed.
>
> glad to see that I'm not alone...
>
> > if you unmount the disk then binary mount it
> >
> > umount /
> > mount -b c: /
> >
>
> For now, I do not know what this command sequence does
> but I will try to verify this and examine if the created
> headers are ok.
>

This command sequence will unmount your C:\ drive, which is text! mounted by
default
and then binary mount it.


>
> > That's what I meant that someone needs to port Tiff properly the
precompiled
> > binaries available
> > from Cygwin users have the above mentioned problems.  I have tried
almost
> > all the precompiled
> > Tiff binaries available on net from different porters and all of them
have
> > this problem.
>
> I wonder now why this is not mentioned in the mailing list archives?
> Maybe libtiff does work on their computers?

I do not know about thier *computers*.  Maybe they are using the binary
mounted disks.
The prefered way of having a text! mounted disk.

I know a few other users who have complain about the similar problems to me
via
personal comunications.  So, it is not you or me only, i guess a lot of
other Cygwin users.

Suhaib

>
> Ulrich
> Koehler
>


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