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Date:	Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:13:29 -0400
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Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 10/25/2009 09:47 PM, Paul McFerrin wrote:
>> What gives.  I see thru-out the source code reference to "fopen(a, ...,
>> "rt") but when I look at the various manual paes for fopen, I find
>> nothing about the "t". What is "t"? Any GURU want to answer?
>
> The opposite of "rb".  b = binary.  t = text.  Yes, I agree.  Yuck!
>
I'm glad there IS some logic to it.  The only thing could come up with 
is "t" for the sticky-bit.  That made no sense with me.  Thanks.

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