Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 22:41:33 +0200
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> From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero" <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
> Organization: Darmstadt University of Technology
> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 19:13:37 +0200
> 
> Only FYI: there are two occurrences of setmode in the whole package.
> 1) src/msgfmt.c. Here stdout is switched to O_BINARY and stdout is
>    really stdout (1).
> 2) src/msgunftm.c. Here stdin is switched to O_BINARY. It is really stdin (0).
>    In this case, the macro is a *must have*. The reason is the way msgunfmt
>    evaluates the command line.
>    On gettext 0.10.35 the user had to explicitely write a dash for stdin.
>    On gettext 0.10.36 the user can write a dash or *nothing* for stdin.
>    This has the concequence that a newbie that types the command:
> 
> PROMPT> msgunfmt  CR
> 
>    will have to reboot the machine. No arguments to msgunfmt always implies:
>    read from stdin. Now, there is no way to terminate the programm.

Yes, a known gotcha ;-).  GZip has similar problems before the last
port stopped switching stdin into binary mode when console was stdin.

> Now it is clear that an appropiate comment *must* and will be added to the
> macro in lib/system.h.

Thanks.