From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: ASCII and BINARY files. Why? 28 Jan 1997 08:34:28 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199701281409.BAA31757.cygnus.gnu-win32@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Content-Type: text Original-To: Paul AT chocolat DOT foobar DOT co DOT uk (Paul Shirley) Original-Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com (gnu-win32) In-Reply-To: from "Paul Shirley" at Jan 27, 97 06:40:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Paul Shirley wrote: > > AFAIK the djgpp port already handles 't' and O_TEXT modes. I had assumed > that this came from the gnu sources ( I assumed that because who else > would add an O_BIN flag when native DOS compilers all use O_BINARY ;) > > If not, borrowing from the djgpp source should be fairly > straightforward. It might well be straightforward to implement 't' and O_TEXT, but it would be a _bad idea_ to do so, because it would be a bad idea to use those features. Using 't' and O_TEXT would be a bad idea even if they were implemented, because doing so would reduce portability, rather than improving it, because they are non-standard. -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh AT 128 DOT 250 DOT 37 DOT 3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".