From: dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de Subject: RE: ASCII and BINARY files. Why? 27 Jan 1997 15:41:26 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <009AF032.C1112B80.8475.cygnus.gnu-win32@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de> Original-To: smueller AT microsoft DOT com Original-CC: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi, you wrote: : ANSI C does not define that a 't' in the second argument to fopen : indicates text mode. ANSI only defines that a 'b' indicates binary mode. Exactly! I just checked K&R 2.ed and "man fopen" on linux, hp-ux and DECunix, and they mention "b" only. I'm to lazy to check O_TEXT, too 8-) Bye, Heribert (dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de) - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".