To: kinscoe AT ccmail DOT crc DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu, Eric Backus <ericb AT lsid DOT hp DOT com>
Subject: O_BINARY (was Re: Re[2]: zip format for gnu tools avaiable )
Date: 	Wed, 13 Apr 1994 07:24:22 PDT
From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com>


hmmm,,,this is strange...

About 5 years ago, I did an extensive C library for ms/dos which
include most of the Unix type functions (including a working fork (for the 
small model),
exec which passed arguments in the environment; non-blocking IO, 
directory traversal, time routines and whole bunch of other stuff.

I looked at the dos O_BINARY flag, concluded bytes were bytes, and
did away with it in my implementation of the library...

I can port most Unix code which compiles into the small model on this
so obviously it works... ;-)

I'll take a look at my implementation and the djgpp implementation...

marty