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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:01:09 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Pserver on cygwin corrupts binary files
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On Feb 17 18:16, Alejandro Lopez-Valencia wrote:
> Because when using textmode, cygwin changes the semantics of I/O
> functions in the underlying C runtime. It does (and forces) EOL
> conversion on all files read and written to the filesystem as well as
> *sockets* and *pipes* for all applications compiled with the runtime.

Nope.  Sockets reads and writes are always binary.

Corinna

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