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* cygwinenv.sgml: Move binmode option to list of removed options.

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2008-07-18 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* cygwinenv.sgml: Move binmode option to list of removed options.
2008-07-17 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* Revamp documentation for Cygwin 1.7, part 1.

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@ -10,21 +10,6 @@ listed below, separated by blank characters. Many options can be turned off
by prefixing with <literal>no</literal>.</para>
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
<listitem>
<para><envar>(no)binmode</envar> - if set, non-disk
(e.g. pipe and COM ports) file opens default to binary mode
(no CRLF translation) instead of text mode. Defaults to set (binary
mode). By default, devices are opened in binary mode, so this option
has little effect on normal cygwin operations. Sockets are always
in binary mode.
It does affect two things, however. For non-NTFS filesystems, this
option will control the line endings for standard output/input/error
for redirection from the Windows command shell. It will also affect
the default translation mode of a pipe, although most shells set the
pipe to binary by default.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><envar>codepage:[ansi|oem|utf8]</envar> - This option controls
@ -156,6 +141,7 @@ set. If not set, Cygwin creates symlinks as plain files with a magic number,
a path and the system attribute set. Defaults to not set since plain
file symlinks are faster to write and faster to read.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
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These removed options are listed below.</para>
<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
<listitem>
<para><envar>(no)binmode</envar> - This option has been removed because
all file opens default to binary mode, unless the open mode has been specified
explicitely in the open(2) call.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><envar>check_case</envar> - This option has been removed in favor of
real case sensitivity and the per-mount option "posix=[0|1]". For more
@ -205,6 +199,7 @@ Cygwin.</para>
traverse checking is not quite correctly implemented by Microsoft and
it's behaviour is getting worse with each new OS version.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>