Binary Mode stdin/stdout

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From: Markus Kuhn
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 00:33

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Why isn't there a standard way of allowing an ISO C program to switch
the standard input and output into binary transparent mode (as with
the "b" flag in fopen()/freopen() for normal files)?

Has this just been forgotten or is there a good technical reason?

The lack of a function which makes stdin/stdou binary transparent is
always a pain if you port software (e.g. zcat) which can under Unix be
used to pipe binary files from one program to the next to systems like
MS-DOS where there is a difference between binary and text mode
streams.

Markus

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Date: 6 Feb 1996 01:33:20 +0100
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