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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Binary I/O on stdin/stdout?
Message-ID: <8036@elsie.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 88 16:44:45 GMT
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> > There seems to be *no way* to "reopen" these streams as binary.
> 
> There was a proposal for freopen((char*)0,mode,stream) to effect
> a change of mode on an open stream, but several implementors
> thought that switching modes in midstream could be difficult to
> support on some systems.

Couldn't freopen simply return ((FILE *) 0) in such cases, much as
localtime is allowed to return -1 if local time can't be determined?
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