From: "Olaf van der Spek" <Olaf AT XCC DOT TMFWeb DOT NL>
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"Hans-Bernhard Broeker" <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> schreef in bericht
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> Olaf van der Spek <Olaf AT xcc DOT tmfweb DOT nl> wrote:
>
> > I thought it was necessary for the text mode. I think I saw it in a MSDN
> > doc.
>
> You didn't really think you could believe anything MSDN writes about
> Unix, did you?

It wasn't about Unix, it was about popen in general. What source do you
recommend for this kind of documentation for g++?

>
> > But why is there no text mode in Unix?
>
> No particular reason. Someone thought it was simpler, that way. He was
> right. On Unix, one of the basic principles says "everything is a
> file".  It doesn't say somethings are text files and others binary:
> they're files. Period.
> --
> Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
> Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.