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On 02/13/2012 08:42 PM, John Cowan wrote: >> > By the way, I'm still opening the script file with "rt". I cannot think >> > of any case when you would want to keep CRs there. > You wouldn't, but the point is that "rt" isn't defined on Posix systems. > If it happens to be the same as "r", good, but that isn't guaranteed. Yes, I added a configure-time check too. I assume that if "rt" works, it can be used instead of "r". > And the only time "rt" does anything different from "r" on a Win32 system > is when you have: > > 1) linked your executable with the system-supplied 'binmode.obj' file > > 2) set the global variable _fmode to O_BINARY > > 3) invoked _set_fmode(O_BINARY) > > all of which make "r" synonymous with "rb". Programs which don't do any > of these should use "r" rather than "rt", as it is guaranteed to do the > right thing for text on both Win32 and Posix systems. No, "rt" also does something different than "r" on Cygwin with binary-mounts. If you meant that "rt" should be restricted to cygwin, that's also fine by me but in general I prefer feature tests to OS tests. Paolo -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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