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Subject: RE: Using windows text mode without setup.exe
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On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 at 12:43 -0700, dave.korn@... wrote:

>  Alternatively, if you don't want to go through your application fixing the
> file open calls, you can just link it against textmode.o, which will cause all
> your files to be opened in textmode by default.  See also
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-10/msg00152.html

Thanks for mentioning this - shouldn't this be mentioned in

   http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-textbinary.html

(along with perhaps some of the issues that are involved)

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