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Re: LYNX-DEV Using lynx for command line ftp.
From: |
David Woolley |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV Using lynx for command line ftp. |
Date: |
Fri, 5 Dec 1997 08:02:52 +0000 (GMT) |
>
> Lynx is writing to stdout and the ``OS'' is redirecting the output
> to my_file.zip. As I recall stdout is opened in text mode and the OS
Yes and no. stdout is already open and in no particular mode. It is
the C library that treats it as text mode. You could probably avoid this,
but if you don't hack the C library, you'd probably have to create your
own equivalents of the stdio routines, which directly call the DOS or BIOS
I/O functions. You might be able to find the flag in the internal data
structures and hack that, as well, but it is not, I think, part of the
defined interface of stdio, so might very between implementations and
versions of the C library.
> uses text mode to perform the redirection. Is this really true? If
> so, there may be little that you can do about it short of using a
> better shell.