Subject: Re: stdin, stdout and friends, was: fstat() yet again
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 21:24:23 -0600 (CDT)
Cc: ericb AT lsid DOT hp DOT com, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From: mcastle AT umr DOT edu (Mike Castle)

Amazingly enough eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il said:
> My question is: is there ANY way to change open mode (TEXT vs BINARY) of the
> stdin stream WITHOUT reopening it (which we obviously cannot do, as indicated
> by Eric Backus)?  I think there is no PORTABLE (i.e. ANSI) way, but maybe
> something DOS-specific or DJGPP-specific?

setmode(fileno(FILE*),O_BINARY);

ie:

setmode(fileno(stdin),O_BINARY);

This appears to work with any DOS compiler, and many OS/2
compilers (only one I know it doesn't work on is IBM's C/SET
compiler).  

mrc
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