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From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd@hotmail.com>
To: kkont@estia.iit.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr
Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Consistent mode of file-opens
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 15:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19971009133008.272.qmail@hotmail.com> (raw)

>From: kkont@estia.iit.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr (Kimon Kontovassilis)
>Subject: Consistent mode of file-opens
>To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
>Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 18:31:19 +0200 (EET)
>Cc: kkont@estia.iit.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr (Kimon Kontovassilis)
>
>Hello, fellows!
>
---snip---
>
>Consider now a system setup where all mount points have been flagged as
>binary. (As previous discussions on this list have fully explained, 
such a
>setting is virtually necessary, if binary-file-oriented applications 
are to
>behave properly without being individually modified.)
>The problem is that stdin, stdout and stderr are still opened in text 
mode.
>This breaks redirection and pipe operations dealing with binary data.
>Things like
>
>	gunzip -c file.tar.gz | tar xvf -

You must be executing from the MSDosshell.  I've done this sort of 
operation many times both on WNT3.51 and W95 within BASH without any 
problems.

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             reply	other threads:[~1997-10-09 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-10-09 15:57 Earnie Boyd [this message]
1997-10-09 16:37 ` Kimon Kontovasilis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-10-10 15:04 Larry Hall
1997-10-09 16:37 dahms
1997-10-10  6:25 ` Kimon Kontovasilis
1997-10-09 12:13 Earnie Boyd
1997-10-10 15:04 ` Kimon Kontovasilis
1997-10-08 14:47 Kimon Kontovassilis

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