From: arlindo@niteroi.gsfc.nasa.gov (Arlindo da Silva)
Subject: Re: More on getting coolview-bash to work with emacs
9 Dec 1997 06:31:07 -0800
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To: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Cc: ggp@informix.com, "'Earnie@prospect.com.ru, Boyd'"@prospect.com.ru,
        earnie_boyd@hotmail.com, gnu-win32@cygnus.com

Sergey,

> 
> Cygwin.dll forces stdin/stdout/stderr to be opened in a binary mode when 
> connected to a non-tty devices. 

Is there a deeper reason why you had to enforce binary mode in such cases?
Would it make sense (is it possible) to make this feature user configurable?
This binary mode thing and bash has caused many people a lot of grief (and
e-mail traffic). Just a thought.

-- 
Arlindo da Silva    
dasilva@alum.mit.edu


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