April 9, 2001
7:21 p.m.
Chris Barker <chrishbarker@home.net>:
Even if people have been sloppy and used binary mode for text files under *nix, that code would still work with *nix text files, which is the only way it works now anyway.
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! Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+