Editing a Binary File.

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Paradox wrote:
> I just didn't even read the r capabilities cause I thought they were
> for readonly access.

Yes, the meanings of the + modes are somewhat unintuitive.
'Twould have been better if the mode letters had been
designed to be more orthogonal, but we're stuck with
them for Historical Reasons. :-(

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg