Writing binary to stdout

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:00:02 -0400, rumours say that Christopher T King
<squirrel at WPI.EDU> might have written:

>Believe it or not, open('CON:','wb') actually works under WinXP. It's 
>amazing that this relic from DOS is still around. Though unportable (the 
>Unix equivalent is open('/dev/stdout','wb')) and ugly, it'll get the job done.

/dev/stdout I believe is a Linux device.  /dev/tty is the traditional
Unix device for reading/writing to the current "tty".
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