Subject: RE: ASCII and BINARY files. Why?
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20 Jan 1997 17:03:39 -0800
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Hi, you wrote:

: I don't understand why gnu-win32 has to support ASCII files at
: all. For compatible UNIX enviroment it will make only problems.

How true!

: If ASCII files will be still supported, then it should not be
: the default when opening a file, device or pipe.

: So, can someone tell me why ASCII file is the default?

I don't know a standard way of forcing open in text mode,
i.e. the negation of "b" or O_BINARY is missing!

Bye, Heribert ([email-masked])
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