a few weeks ago I asked about what mount commands to use in order to simulate the set-up I had on an older version of Cygwin which had textmode as the default for opening files
I did not explicitly change the default mount settings from that version, which it reports as
c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode, noumount)
with the latest version that I have upgraded to however, there is no combination of mount commands that I can find that allows me to open all files in textmode by default
in particular, if I mount / to be textmode, I can get this behavior only if I use the full absolute path of the file I am opening, but if I use a relative path specification, file is opened as binary data
it would be great if I could set the CYGWIN environment variable to nobinmode in order to avoid this problem (and also to avoid having to set up mounts for every other drive besides C: that I might use), but doing so seems to have no effect
I am not sure if this is a problem with how I am doing it, or if that setting for the environment variable is no longer honored
someone who replied to my earlier post on this topic said that I should not expect the Cygwin module to support nobinmode in the environment variable anymore
yet the lastest documentation I can find in the download package seems to indicate that this is supposed to still be a viable option
any clarification on either of these 2 related points would be appreciated
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