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Hi James,

> 1.  Cygwin would need an additional function with a parameter to specify
> byte pipes (maybe you already added this, I have not checked the recent
> source code very much).

You just missed the announcement:

On 2012-05-10 08:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
[snip]
> I just released 1.7.15.  This is a bugfix release.  Only one new feature
> has been added.
[snip]
> - Add CYGWIN=pipe_byte option to force opening of pipes in byte mode
>   rather than message mode.

That's probably just for you.

Cheers,
Otto

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