Re: A question for Corinna

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 07:51:08PM -0600, Matthew Smith wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 09:36:01AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >Leave it as it is for:
>> > - stdout, stderr and their redirection
>> >
>> >(no demand for completeness)
>>
>> Why not just link with automode.o?  That should do the right thing.
>> Pipes should default to binary regardless.
>>
>> cgf
>
>Chris, are you saying that the only thing I need to do when building a zsh
>for cygwin is link with automode?  Or are you talking about stdout,stderr,
>and pipe stuff specifically?

I don't understand the question.  automode.o (poor choice of name and subject
to change) defaults file operations to textmode input and binary mode output.
It is similar in operation to Microsoft's binmode.obj.

It doesn't affect pipes.  Those are binmode by default.

cgf

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