> On Oct 19, 2018, at 3:30 AM, Graham Hardman <gra...@gh-designs.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I am curious about what this option does. It is not discussed in the
> documentation and my own testing with the shell program has not aided my
> understanding. A simple example would be nice. 


It controls how data is output to files/stdout.

Only relevant on Windows; does absolutely nothing on all other platforms.

sqlite-amalgamation-3250200/shell.c:200:

/* On Windows, we normally run with output mode of TEXT so that \n characters
** are automatically translated into \r\n.  However, this behavior needs
** to be disabled in some cases (ex: when generating CSV output and when
** rendering quoted strings that contain \n characters).  The following
** routines take care of that.
*/
#if defined(_WIN32) || defined(WIN32)
static void setBinaryMode(FILE *file, int isOutput){
  if( isOutput ) fflush(file);
  _setmode(_fileno(file), _O_BINARY);
}
static void setTextMode(FILE *file, int isOutput){
  if( isOutput ) fflush(file);
  _setmode(_fileno(file), _O_TEXT);
}
#else
# define setBinaryMode(X,Y)
# define setTextMode(X,Y)
#endif





> 
> regards, 
> 
> Graham
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