From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: Consistent mode of file-opens
9 Oct 1997 23:11:23 -0700
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To: kkont AT estia DOT iit DOT nrcps DOT ariadne-t DOT gr
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com



>From: kkont AT estia DOT iit DOT nrcps DOT ariadne-t DOT gr (Kimon Kontovassilis)
>Subject: Consistent mode of file-opens
>To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
>Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 18:31:19 +0200 (EET)
>Cc: kkont AT estia DOT iit DOT nrcps DOT ariadne-t DOT gr (Kimon Kontovassilis)
>
>Hello, fellows!
>
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>
>Consider now a system setup where all mount points have been flagged as
>binary. (As previous discussions on this list have fully explained, 
such a
>setting is virtually necessary, if binary-file-oriented applications 
are to
>behave properly without being individually modified.)
>The problem is that stdin, stdout and stderr are still opened in text 
mode.
>This breaks redirection and pipe operations dealing with binary data.
>Things like
>
>	gunzip -c file.tar.gz | tar xvf -

You must be executing from the MSDosshell.  I've done this sort of 
operation many times both on WNT3.51 and W95 within BASH without any 
problems.

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