A pipe, a binary pipe...

[Max Hadley]

Dear list,

What are the rules cygwin uses for deciding whether stdin & stdout are
treated as text or binary? I have a program which works when I do:

    MyProgram < a_file

but not when I do:

    cat a_file | MyProgram

Can I tell what the mode of an already-open stream is, or one tell to
switch modes from text to binary? BTW, my $CYGWIN is "noglob noreset_com
noenvcache". Come to that, a nice way of testing whether an open stream
is a pipe would be usefull!

Thanks

Max Hadley

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