From: blake@edge.net (Blake McBride)
Subject: Beta 18 an shell pipe (text/binary) mode?
9 May 1997 16:39:17 -0700
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I had a some problems with the runtime version of 17.1
and was wondering whether or not it was fixed.

In 17.1 shell pipes (|) were opened in text (as apposed
to binary mode).  This killed stuff like gzip | tar.
Has this been changed (perhaps a config option added)?

Thanks.

--blake

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