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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:29:38 -0500
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In-reply-to: <v04210106b692974bf0a1@[64.13.5.209]> (message from David Johnson
	on Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:34:40 -0500)
Subject: Re: problems with read()
References:  <v04210106b692974bf0a1@[64.13.5.209]>


If it's a binary file and contains a ^Z character, opening the file in
text mode causes it to stop reading at the ^Z character.  This
is expected.

What you should do is add O_BINARY to the open flags to force binary
handling of the file, regardless of the mount flags.

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