Binary I/O on stdin/stdout?

[Arthur David Olson]

> If UNIX needed this facility, and if it used "b" to indicate binary mode,
> 	FILE *binin = fdopen(fileno(stdin), "rb");
> 	FILE *binout= fdopen(fileno(stdout),"wb");
> 	/* use bin_in, bin_out instead of stdin, stdout */
> would do the job.  Would this work in MSDOS?

Whether or not it works in MSDOS, it wouldn't work in draft proposed ANSI C
(which lacks an "fdopen" function).
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