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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:39:05 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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In-reply-to: <19990617232130.20833.rocketmail@web124.yahoomail.com> (message
	from Earnie Boyd on Thu, 17 Jun 1999 16:21:30 -0700 (PDT))
Subject: Re: fileutil cat program
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First off, such a patch would be too small to warrant legal papers.
It would probably look like "if (!isatty(0)) setmode(1, O_BINARY);"

Second, is this really what you want?  The DJGPP port of fileutils
uses "-b" to indicate binary mode.  Doing it automatically may create
subtle bugs.

> Could someone whose already signed the Cygnus release forms submit a
> patch for the cat program such that if the output is to a pipe or
> redirection that the input is processed in binary mode?

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