From: franl AT amulet DOT com (Fran Litterio)
Subject: RE: ASCII and BINARY files. Why?
29 Jan 1997 13:14:03 -0800
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Fergus Henderson wrote:

>Jim Balter, you wrote:

>> and/or the library
>> could allow a special name form such as dos:filename that causes it to
>> open the file in "text" mode.
>
>[...] (b) that still doesn't solve the problem of using Windows tools on
>gnu-win32 text files.

What problem is that?  Windows tools work fine on gnu-win32 text files
(i.e., text files without any ^M's) -- at least every Windows tool I
have tried.  David Korn's UWIN project has decided to open all files in
binary mode all the time precisely because so few (if any) Windows apps
care whether a text file contains ^M characters or not.
--
Francis Litterio
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http://world.std.com/~franl/

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