Subject: Re: Consistent mode of file-opens
From: [email-masked] (Larry Hall)

11 Oct 1997 00:55:38 -0700
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To: "Earnie Boyd" <[email-masked]>,
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At 06:30 AM 10/9/97 PDT, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
>
>>From: [email-masked] (Kimon Kontovassilis)
>>Subject: Consistent mode of file-opens
>>To: [email-masked]
>>Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 18:31:19 +0200 (EET)
>>Cc: [email-masked] (Kimon Kontovassilis)
>>
>>Hello, fellows!
>>
>---snip---
>>
>>Consider now a system setup where all mount points have been flagged as
>>binary. (As previous discussions on this list have fully explained, 
>such a
>>setting is virtually necessary, if binary-file-oriented applications 
>are to
>>behave properly without being individually modified.)
>>The problem is that stdin, stdout and stderr are still opened in text 
>mode.
>>This breaks redirection and pipe operations dealing with binary data.
>>Things like
>>
>>	gunzip -c file.tar.gz | tar xvf -
>
>You must be executing from the MSDosshell.  I've done this sort of 
>operation many times both on WNT3.51 and W95 within BASH without any 
>problems.
>

Nope, Kimon is right on this count.  Pipes, stdin, stdout, and stderr are
"text" mode in gnu-win32 regardless of the mounting option.  A code change 
is necessary to modify this.  I forget exactly where this needs to be done
but its either in bash or winsup code....

Larry

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