Binary I/O on stdin/stdout?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <2605 at bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>ANSI can't change this for you.  ANSI is obliged to humor existing broken
>software environments.

X3J11 decides what to do about variations among operating systems on
a case-by-case basis.  We could require some way to obtain binary
streams for stdin/stdout if we thought it sufficiently useful AND if
we could figure out a viable method for doing so.

P.S. My personal opinion, not an X3J11 official statement.