Re: Opening stdin/stdout in binary mode on Windows

Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Merlin Moncure wrote:
> Bruce wrote:
> > Well, that is a nifty trick.  Great to have that solved with no
> > documentation changes required.
> > 
> > Without this fix we were going to have tons of headaches.
> 
> This is pretty standard m.o. in porting unix applications to win32, or
> even in console mode win32 apps that need to support binary redirection.
> I almost suggested this (setmode), but stupidly assumed it must have
> been attempted and discarded for reasons unknown at an earlier time :-).

I had never heard of it before.

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