On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Greg Ewing <greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
That's a good point. The only thing that could break is if you opened a non-Unix file in *text* mode, and then expected it to behave as though it had been opened in *binary* mode. I can't imagine any code being screwy enough to do that!
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