From:	Robert DOT Baron AT ERNST DOT MACH DOT CS DOT CMU DOT EDU
Subject:	Re: using cat on binary files (CTRL-Z trauma)
29 Oct 1996 20:42:43 -0800 :
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In-Reply-To:	DJ Delorie's mail message of Tue, 29 Oct 1996 08:48:27 -0500
Original-Sender:	owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

What am I missing here?  You just can not let the win32 API use O_TEXT
mode -- ever.  Not only will cat be broken, but so will the checksum
programs, cksum, md5 and then the cmp program and who knows what else.

In the registry, under b15/cygnus you can set a "mount flag" to make
opens default to binary mode.  I posted the explanation to this list
before.  I'll see if I can find the exact details in the morning.
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