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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 16:16:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Bash patches
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--- Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> --- 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.
> 

And I find that it should be _setmode( int handle, int mode ) for the LIBC,
LIBCMT, MSVCRT equivalent.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/devprods/vs6/visualc/vccore/_crt__setmode.htm

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
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