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Re: Bash patches


On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 07:15:35PM -0400, cgf wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:50:42PM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:43:00PM -0600, Erik Nolte wrote:
>>> >I haven't seen setmode(fd,mode) in any other POSIX environment.  Have I just
>>> >missed it or is this a cywin specific thing?
>>> 
>>> It's a Windows/MS-DOS specific think, I believe.  It's necessary for systems
>>> that distinguish between "text" and "binary".
>>> 
>>
>>Hmm, interesting, I'd suggest doing a Google search for setmode.  Seems that
>>BSD has a different idea of what setmode() is to be used for.
>
>Actually, it looks like the same thing to me.  It's a method for changing
>the mode of an open file handle.

Oops.  Nevermind.  That wasn't a BSD related web page that I was reading.

cgf

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