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From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: bash mode binary?
14 Sep 1998 00:37:31 -0700 :
Message-ID: <01BDDFD1.090EDD90.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@sos>
To: "cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>,
"'Trevor Yann'" <TYann AT vet DOT com DOT au>

Trevor Yann wrote:
> I seem to remember some decision to take the code out of bash that
> forces pipes to text mode.

As for me, I have only troubles with text mode pipes and no goodness at 
all... For example, build of X fonts during X11 compilation fails because 
of commands like

bdftopcf fontfile | gzip -c >fontfile.gz

creates damaged font files.

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


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