From: "Olaf van der Spek" <Olaf AT XCC DOT TMFWeb DOT NL>
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Subject: Re: Pipe to sendmail (again)
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"DJ Delorie" <dj AT delorie DOT com> schreef in bericht
news:200007130406 DOT AAA24310 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com...
>
> > 'text' mode in Unix (nor should there really have been a need to
> > invent it on DOS: absence of 'b' already means "text mode", so what
> > would you need a 't' specifier for?)
>
> Absence of 'b' means *default*, which can still be binary if you (or
> the application, if you are a library) have set the _fmode variable
> appropriately.
>
> In cygwin, the "default" comes from the mount table, and is often
> "binary", so the "t" is a good idea.

But it caused popen to fail, so it doesn't seem that good to me always.