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Subject: Re: Need help with MS-DOS 3.1 and C
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Date: Wed, 18-Feb-87 16:05:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 18 16:05:00 1987
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>In article <174200030@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> crimmins@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>

  (stuff deleted)

>>With MSC, there are 5 predefined stream pointers...stdin, stdout,
>>stderr, stdaux (COM1:), and stdprn (LPT1:).  No opening is
>>necessary...just write to the appropriate stream.  This is all
>>documented completely in the manuals.
>
>Yes, but what if you want to read binary from stdin, and write
>binary to stdout???
>
>                      S. John Banner

Try:

#include <fcntl.h>

int result;

result = setmode(fileno(stdin),O_BINARY);
result = setmode(fileno(stdout),O_BINARY);


This is taken directly from the MSC run-time library documentation,
page 346-7. 

As an aside, I'd just like to add that I think the MSC documentation
is a model of what good documentation should be.  I have never had a
problem that it did not cover, and is superb in all aspects.
Congratulation, Microsoft.  Keep up the good work.

----
Dan Crimmins
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Computing Services Office - Micro Consulting Dept.

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