RE: "save" to and "load" from file descriptor

[Aaron Birenboim]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John W. Eaton [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 5:11 PM
> To: Olaf Till
> Cc: octave maintainers mailing list
> Subject: Re: "save" to and "load" from file descriptor
> 
> On 13-Jun-2007, Olaf Till wrote:
> 
> | work. I cannot enforce binary mode since pipes have only 
> "w" or "r".)
> 
> I think pipes are by definition binary.

At least 4-5 years ago they were TEXT ONLY on Win32.
I had to re-write some code to deal with that on a port from LINUX.
Perhaps CygWin will allow binary...

               Aaron