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In article <11280@hubcap.clemson.edu> lsalomo@hubcap.clemson.edu (lsalomo)
writes:
   From article <22926@grebyn.com>, by jmbj@grebyn.com (Jim Bittman):
   > A (unix) friend of mine is attempting to port an application, and is 
   > getting frustrated, not that I can blame him.  Most his complaints are 
   > quite valid.  One question (to which I had no answer) was:  
   >    "Why wasn't the 128 byte command line limit fixed between DOS 
   >     versions 1.0 and 1.1?"

   Because real people use DOS 3.x+  *grin*  ;)

All right, so now the question is: why wasn't it fixed between DOS versions
3.01 and 3.10 ?  Or between versions 3.30 and 4.01 ?  I hate MicroS*t for
the fact that no significant improvements have gone into the command processor
since version 2.11 !

Gee, for some reason I couldn't find the original article, but to answer the
question posed in the Subject: yes, stdin and stdout can both be binary files
-- you just have to ioctl them to binary mode !
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