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From: sos AT buggy DOT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: echo is wrong...
11 Apr 1998 09:00:10 -0700 :
Message-ID: <01BD653A.07506620.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos>
To: Sergey Okhapkin <sos AT buggy DOT prospect DOT com DOT ru>,
"'Bob McGowan'"
<Bob_McGowan AT xstor DOT com>
Cc: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

Bob McGowan wrote:
> Sergey,
>
> Having _bash_ force pipes to be text mode seems to me to be "incorrect".
> I would think that the user would prefer a binary mode, so that it does

I think that it's incorrect too. It was not my idea to force text mode 
pipes. With this "feature" it's impossible to build X fonts while building 
X11...

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


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