Binary I/O on stdin/stdout?

[Henry Spencer]

> 	... it's always been my impression
> that UNIX was designed to make no distinction between binary and ASCII
> (say) data...  Why is this a problem now?  ...

The key point here is that X3J11 is standardizing C, not Unix.  X3J11 must
define a standard that is implementable on non-Unix systems, some of which
insist that text and binary i/o are very different animals.
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