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- Path: sparky!uunet!taumet!steve
- From: steve@taumet.com (Steve Clamage)
- Subject: Re: binary data with stdin/stdout
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.185705.27873@taumet.com>
- Organization: TauMetric Corporation
- References: <ig25.728085496@fg70>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:57:05 GMT
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- ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) writes:
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- >Does the standard have anything to say about wether stdin and stdout
- >are opened to a file stream opened in binary mode?
-
- Yes. In section 4.9.3 it says that the predefined standard streams
- are text streams.
-
- I suppose an implementation could provide an option where the files
- were opened in binary mode. Code which depended on this would not
- be portable.
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- Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com
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