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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 15:50:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Bash patches
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--- Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:43:00PM -0600, Erik Nolte wrote:
> >I haven't seen setmode(fd,mode) in any other POSIX environment.  Have I just
> >missed it or is this a cywin specific thing?
> 
> It's a Windows/MS-DOS specific think, I believe.  It's necessary for systems
> that distinguish between "text" and "binary".
> 

Hmm, interesting, I'd suggest doing a Google search for setmode.  Seems that
BSD has a different idea of what setmode() is to be used for.

Cheers,

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