Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 14:31:27 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Oberhumer Markus <k3040e4 AT c210 DOT edvz DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at>
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Subject: Re: stdin + binmode (yet another one ;-)
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On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Oberhumer Markus wrote:

> A) disabling the translation of textmode characters (CR/NL etc.)
> B) talking to devices in "raw" mode
> 
> For some reason B) was introduced in 2.01 as a default when opening
> stdin. There was probably not much discussion at this time...

There are programs (Emacs, among others) that want to see Ctrl-C
because Ctrl-C runs some command there.  These programs usually switch
stdin to binary.