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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Binary I/O on stdin/stdout?
Message-ID: <7678@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 13 Apr 88 23:25:07 GMT
References: <302@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <225800017@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <8042@elsie.UUCP> <865@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <2605@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2605@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>ANSI can't change this for you.  ANSI is obliged to humor existing broken
>software environments.

X3J11 decides what to do about variations among operating systems on
a case-by-case basis.  We could require some way to obtain binary
streams for stdin/stdout if we thought it sufficiently useful AND if
we could figure out a viable method for doing so.

P.S. My personal opinion, not an X3J11 official statement.