From: lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall) Subject: Re: Consistent mode of file-opens 11 Oct 1997 00:55:38 -0700 Message-ID: <2.2.32.19971010130802.0097fe74.cygnus.gnu-win32@ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com>, kkont AT estia DOT iit DOT nrcps DOT ariadne-t DOT gr Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com At 06:30 AM 10/9/97 PDT, Earnie Boyd wrote: > > >>From: kkont AT estia DOT iit DOT nrcps DOT ariadne-t DOT gr (Kimon Kontovassilis) >>Subject: Consistent mode of file-opens >>To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >>Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 18:31:19 +0200 (EET) >>Cc: kkont AT estia DOT iit DOT nrcps DOT ariadne-t DOT gr (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 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".