From:	cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher G. Faylor)
Subject:	Re: A pipe, a binary pipe...
7 Jan 1999 16:10:36 GMT :
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In article <001801be39b8$1caf5190$016464c0 DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT susato DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>,
Max Hadley <max AT susato DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
>Can I tell what the mode of an already-open stream is, or one tell to
>switch modes from text to binary? BTW, my $CYGWIN is "noglob noreset_com
>noenvcache". Come to that, a nice way of testing whether an open stream
>is a pipe would be usefull!

Use fstat, just like UNIX.

-chris
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