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Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows
Date 2021-12-06 10:36 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> writes:

> Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Meredith Montgomery wrote:
>>> 
>>> Windows provides me _setmode(), with which I can put stdout on
>>> _O_BINARY.  It then stops replacing \n with \r\n.  However, it seems
>>> that Windows does not do any such replacements on stdin and stderr.  I
>>> looked for a confirmation of this apparent fact and could not find it.
>  <<snip>>
>> 
>> Check the output of this in your hex-editor:
>> 
>> #include <stdio.h>
>> #include <fcntl.h>
>> #include <io.h>
>> #include <stdlib.h>
>> 
>> int main( int argc, char **argv )
>> {
>>        if( argc >= 2 && _setmode( _fileno( stderr ), _O_BINARY ) == -1 )
>>                return EXIT_FAILURE;
>>        fprintf( stderr, "it works !\n" );
>> }
>> 
>> Without a commandline-parameter you've 0x0D, 0x0A
>> as a line-separator, with you've got only 0x0A.

Summary: making stdout binary.

> Yeah, that's more or less what I've been doing, but is there
> maybe a portable way to do it, i.e., for programs intended to
> run both under windows and linux?

There's a standard function that /could/ do it, but it is allowed to be
no-op.  I don't have access to a Windows programming environment, so I
can't check it:

  freopen(NULL, "ab", stdout);

(or maybe "wb", it's the b you want of course).

-- 
Ben.

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ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2021-12-04 20:24 -0300
  Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows Mike Terry <news.dead.person.stones@darjeeling.plus.com> - 2021-12-05 00:01 +0000
  Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows Mike Terry <news.dead.person.stones@darjeeling.plus.com> - 2021-12-05 00:13 +0000
    Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2021-12-04 23:09 -0300
      Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-12-04 18:27 -0800
      Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows Mike Terry <news.dead.person.stones@darjeeling.plus.com> - 2021-12-05 03:33 +0000
        Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2021-12-05 09:17 -0300
  Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-12-05 15:04 +0100
  Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-12-05 15:13 +0100
    Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2021-12-06 08:20 +0000
      Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-12-06 09:45 +0100
      Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-12-06 10:36 +0000
        Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2021-12-06 13:03 +0100
          Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-12-06 12:34 +0000
            Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2021-12-06 14:38 +0100
              Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2021-12-06 06:00 -0800
                Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2021-12-06 18:59 +0100
              Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-12-06 17:08 +0000
                Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-12-06 17:18 +0000
            Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2021-12-07 01:11 +0000
              Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2021-12-07 09:56 +0000
                Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2021-12-08 08:13 +0000
  Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2021-12-10 01:10 -0800
    Re: ot: on stdin, stdout, stderr and crlf on windows gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2021-12-10 11:00 +0000

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