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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 10:13:15 -0600 (CST)
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT eurecom DOT fr>, bug-gnu-utils AT gnu DOT org,
        cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: bug in strip 2.9.4
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On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Isn't there some magic like this for __MSDOS__ or some such?  Binutils do 
> work in the DJGPP port, and binary mode is not the default in DJGPP.
> 
> > #if _WIN32
> >   setmode (fromfd, O_BINARY);
> >   setmode (tofd, O_BINARY);
> > #endif

Of course. Thanks for pointing it out.

> I think it's better to say something like that:
> 
> 	#if O_BINARY
> 	setmode (...
> 
> because it works for other platforms with O_BINARY as well.

I don't know if all systems that have O_BINARY also have setmode. But of
course, this is a pretty trivial autoconf check -- if both O_BINARY and
setmode exists, use it.

Regards,
Mumit



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