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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:02:23 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-rcm AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: RXVT Problem with buffering of application output.
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 03:31:13PM +0000, John Vincent wrote:
>I suspect the problem is that there are two ways to read and write in 
>DOS/Windows.

The problem is that pipes are not considered to be "tty" devices and
so the MSVCRT layer changes the default output buffering.

cgf
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