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RE: More on getting coolview-bash to work with emacs
- To: "'Arlindo da Silva'" <arlindo at niteroi dot gsfc dot nasa dot gov>
- Subject: RE: More on getting coolview-bash to work with emacs
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:40:24 +0300
- Cc: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
Arlindo da Silva wrote:
> Sergey,
>
> >
> > Cygwin.dll forces stdin/stdout/stderr to be opened in a binary mode when
> > connected to a non-tty devices.
>
> Is there a deeper reason why you had to enforce binary mode in such cases?
In order to things like
cat file | tar xvf -
or something similar works at least when started from os prompt.
> Would it make sense (is it possible) to make this feature user configurable?
> This binary mode thing and bash has caused many people a lot of grief (and
> e-mail traffic). Just a thought.
I do not understand the needs of text mode at all. Neither NT posix subsystem, nor OpenNT, nor UWIN doesn't have text mode as default.
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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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