From: max@susato.demon.co.uk (Max Hadley) Subject: A pipe, a binary pipe... 6 Jan 1999 18:19:44 -0800 Message-ID: <001801be39b8$1caf5190$016464c0.cygnus.gnu-win32@susato.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Cygwin mailing list" Dear list, What are the rules cygwin uses for deciding whether stdin & stdout are treated as text or binary? I have a program which works when I do: MyProgram < a_file but not when I do: cat a_file | MyProgram 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! Thanks Max Hadley - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".