piping out binaries properly

[Erik Max Francis]

Mike Meyer wrote:

> I watched the Unix world grow up, and it ain't normal to me.

Since there's no distinction between a file opened in binary mode and in 
text mode on Unix, there is no difference.

> I don't
> think I've ever written a program that wrote binary data to standard
> out, not in nearly 30 years of unix programming. I've written lots of
> things whose standard out was designed specifically to be read by
> another program, but never as binary data.

Plenty of applications use that functionality and depend on it.  See 
cjpeg, djpeg, the pbmplus library, and so forth.

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