From: dbe@wgn.net ($Bill Luebkert) Subject: Re: I/O redirection of binary data 12 Sep 1998 03:21:30 -0700 Message-ID: <35F9CE3B.DD2644BA.cygnus.gnu-win32@wgn.net> References: <199809110932.LAA13319@geologi.uio.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Paul Wessel Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Paul Wessel wrote: > > Hi gnu-win32 experts- > > POSIX recommends that one could use the b(inary) modifier > in fopen for portability since the b has no effect on POSIX > systems but may be needed in, say, MS-DOS. How can > I deal with this in redirection? I often have a program do > > program > data > > and data is supposed to be binary but under gnu-win32 I noticed > that the file size is incorrect (it is larger probably due to CR/LFs?) > compared to POSIX systems. This also causes problems when > trying to read the file with anotherprogram < data. > Are there any non-intrusive solutions? WHen using stdout I am > not using fopen so I cannot easily use the binary flag... Maybe do isatty() and if not a tty, use binary, else use text mode. -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert ICQ=14439852 (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles / ) /--< o // // Mailto:dbe@wgn.net -/-' /___/_<_