diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 12cf842f..78575006 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -85,10 +85,12 @@ Developers may need to change their code
 
 ### Corrected Bugs
 
+* Fixed: [CLI show config | display <format> exits over mountpoints with large YANGs](https://github.com/clicon/clixon-controller/issues/39)
+  * No need to bind for xml and json, only cli and text
 * Fixed several issues with extra-config files, including overwriting of structured sub-configs
   * including `<restconf>`and m̀ <autoconf>`
-* [YANG error when poking on EOS configuration](https://github.com/clicon/clixon-controller/issues/26)
-* [CLICON_CONFIGDIR with external subsystems causes endless looping](https://github.com/clicon/clixon/issues/439)
+* Fixed: [YANG error when poking on EOS configuration](https://github.com/clicon/clixon-controller/issues/26)
+* Fixed: [CLICON_CONFIGDIR with external subsystems causes endless looping](https://github.com/clicon/clixon/issues/439)
 * Fixed: ["show configuration devices" and "show configuration devices | display cli" differs](https://github.com/clicon/clixon-controller/issues/24)
 * Fixed: [Configuring Juniper PTX produces CLI errors](https://github.com/clicon/clixon-controller/issues/19)
 * Fixed: CLI output pipes: Add CLICON_PIPETREE to any cli files, not just the first
diff --git a/apps/cli/cli_pipe.c b/apps/cli/cli_pipe.c
index 3cca01c8..08c9b3ed 100644
--- a/apps/cli/cli_pipe.c
+++ b/apps/cli/cli_pipe.c
@@ -294,11 +294,19 @@ pipe_showas_fn(clicon_handle h,
     /* Bind module with mtpoints requires h, but parse functions font have h */
     if (clixon_xml_parse_file(stdin, YB_NONE, yspec, &xt, NULL) < 0)
         goto done;
-    if ((ret = xml_bind_yang(h, xt, YB_MODULE, yspec, &xerr)) < 0)
-        goto done;
-    if (ret == 0){
-        clixon_netconf_error(xerr, "Parse top file", NULL);
-        goto done;
+    switch (format){
+    case FORMAT_CLI:
+    case FORMAT_TEXT:
+        /* Requires binding. Note binding over mountpoints can cause rpc: extra latency */
+        if ((ret = xml_bind_yang(h, xt, YB_MODULE, yspec, &xerr)) < 0)
+            goto done;
+        if (ret == 0){
+            clixon_netconf_error(xerr, "Parse top file", NULL);
+            goto done;
+        }
+        break;
+    default:
+        break;
     }
     switch (format){
     case FORMAT_XML: