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On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:13:46PM -0500, AJ Reins wrote: >Chris Faylor wrote: >> >> Do ash and bash open backquoted pipes in text mode? Should they? >> >> cgf >> > >Bash appears to let the dll handle that, as setting CYGWIN to binmode >or nobinmode does have the appropriate affect. This was the reason >for that particular setting, if memory serves. I can't think of a reason for not setting a back quoted response to text mode, though. When I implemented CYGWIN32=binmode, I was considering the case of the actual pipe '|' character. I thought that it would be nice to make this selectable. I've since come to the conclusion that pipes accessed with '|' should always be binary since it is just too confusing otherwise. I think that `` should also always be text. I can imagine a case where it is vaguely possible that someone would want a \r on their command line but I'd rather have this use suffer than the much more frequent case where the \r is not desired. cgf
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