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Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 01:20:14 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Difference between Sun OS and cygwin?
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On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 12:41:20AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>A workaround may be to do:
>
>cat /dev/tty > filter
>
>That tricks cat into thinking it has an argument so it won't do
>any help binmode/textmode conversions.
         ^
         ful

I guess this illustrates why it took me an hour to figure this out.
Yawn.

cgf

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