diff -r 44e9771746b9 -r f55869abb5c3 mercurial/sshrepo.py
--- a/mercurial/sshrepo.py	Sat May 09 17:12:39 2009 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/sshrepo.py	Sat May 09 17:32:57 2009 +0200
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 
         cmd = util.quotecommand(cmd)
         ui.note(_('running %s\n') % cmd)
-        self.pipeo, self.pipei, self.pipee = util.popen3(cmd, 'b')
+        self.pipeo, self.pipei, self.pipee = util.popen3(cmd)
 
         # skip any noise generated by remote shell
         self.do_cmd("hello")