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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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 19:06:35 GMT
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"Hans-Bernhard Broeker" <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> schreef in bericht
news:8kcu4s$juv$1 AT nets3 DOT rz DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE...
> Olaf van der Spek <Olaf AT xcc DOT tmfweb DOT nl> wrote:
> >  FILE* mail = popen("/usr/sbin/sendmail \"WSpek AT Chello DOT NL\"", "wt");
>
> Loose the 't' in the mode description. There is no such thing as a
> '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?)

I thought it was necessary for the text mode. I think I saw it in a MSDN
doc.
But why is there no text mode in Unix?

>
> --
> Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
> Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.