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Re: Another newbie onboard...


Edward Avis wrote:
> 
> [about binary mounts]
> 
> >See above - there is nothing the like on a Unix system, because they
> >are only there to emulate Unix on Win32.
> 
> Actually, I'd say that _all_ mounts on Unix systems are binary mounts.
> It is the special text mounts, converting CRLF <-> LF, that are there to
> emulate Unix on Win32.

You could also say that all mounts on UNIX are text mounts, since text
mode and binary mode are identical on UNIX C compilers.
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