From:	kkont AT estia DOT iit DOT nrcps DOT ariadne-t DOT gr (Kimon Kontovasilis)
Subject:	Re: Consistent mode of file-opens
10 Oct 1997 18:24:51 -0700 :
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To:	dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

> 
> Hi Kimon, you wrote:
> 
> : default file-open mode is determined by the mount-table flags in the registry.
> 
> : The problem is that stdin, stdout and stderr are still opened in text mode.
> : This breaks redirection and pipe operations dealing with binary data.
> 
> What about a mount flag in the registry for pipes, too?
> 
> 
> Bye, Heribert (dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de)
> 

As you might already have seen in the reply of Earnie Boyd to my original
mail, things work correctly under bash, so in this environment nothing
more needs to be done. Things are different with the "standard" MS-DOS
based shells. For these, the scheme I proposed in my original post,
as ammended in my reply to Earnie's comment, may still be applicable.

Best regards,

Kimon Kontovasilis,
NCSR "Demokritos"
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