From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: More on getting coolview-bash to work with emacs
9 Dec 1997 07:08:44 -0800
Message-ID: <01BD04C9.889A67C0.cygnus.gnu-win32@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru>
To: "'Arlindo da Silva'" <arlindo AT niteroi DOT gsfc DOT nasa DOT gov>
Cc: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

Arlindo da Silva wrote:
> 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?

In order to things like

cat file | tar xvf -

or something similar works at least when started from os prompt.

> 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.

I do not understand the needs of text mode at all. Neither NT posix subsystem, nor OpenNT, nor UWIN doesn't have text mode as default.

-- 
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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