How do I prevent zsh from opening pipes and read redirections in text mode?

[Eric Blake]

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According to Hudec, Jan on 12/4/2008 1:40 AM:
> Hello Folks,
> 
> I have a program (actually a cygwin program -- git-fast-import) that reads commands from standard input and absolutely needs the stream to be binary (byte counts to be read are included in some commands). However, zsh forces it's input to text mode both when I run:
>  git-fast-import < file

I suppose I could try submitting a patch to the git folks that uses
#include <io.h> and setmode.  But this also sounds like zsh might be doing
something wrong.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
volunteer cygwin git maintainer
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