From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: bash mode binary?
14 Sep 1998 05:37:51 -0700
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To: Sergey Okhapkin <sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru>,
        "cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>,
        "'Trevor Yann'" <TYann AT vet DOT com DOT au>

On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 11:15:51AM +0400, Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
>Trevor Yann wrote:
>> I seem to remember some decision to take the code out of bash that
>> forces pipes to text mode.
>
>As for me, I have only troubles with text mode pipes and no goodness at 
>all... For example, build of X fonts during X11 compilation fails because 
>of commands like
>
>bdftopcf fontfile | gzip -c >fontfile.gz
>
>creates damaged font files.

I did make the change to the bash sources to get rid of text mode pipes
so they should be there in the next release.

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