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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 00:03:24 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: A question for Corinna
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In-Reply-To: <20010218133358.B23099@cygbert.vinschen.de>; from cygwin@cygwin.com on Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 01:33:58PM +0100

On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 01:33:58PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:16:29AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 11:03:02PM -0600, Matthew Smith wrote:
>> >Sorry, what I'm trying to ask, is if Corinna's patches to tcsh were
>> >unneccessary?
>> 
>> I don't know.  I was asking Corinna this question.
>> 
>> >You're saying that all she had to do was build tcsh from the original
>> >sources, then link with automode.o?
>> 
>> I was asking her if this would work.  Since she knows about automode.o,
>> et al, I assume that she had a reason for not using it.
>
>Yes, I had reasons. automode.o forces O_TEXT on read - which is good -
>and O_BINARY on write - which is not good

Sounds like we need an "rtextmode.o" and "rbinmode.o" to set the
default modes for reading files.  That's easily doable.

cgf

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