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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:11:32 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To: Jean Delvare <delvare AT ensicaen DOT ismra DOT fr>
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Subject: Re: file descriptors opened as text files
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Jean Delvare wrote:
> 
> Whaou, DJ Delorie writing to me :)
> 
> > The best way to make this portable is to do this:
> >
> > #include <fcntl.h>
> > #ifndef O_BINARY
> > #define O_BINARY 0
> > #endif
> 
> Of course it is. And of course it is what I did :)
> I'm not complaining for myself anymore, now I know how to handle the
> problem. But I thing there is something terribly weird there, and I
> believe it will cause unrequired problem to many developpers. Am I really
> the first one to complain about this here ?
> 

As I stated earlier, this is a technological standard.  Stop belly
aching here about it as there is nothing that can be done.

Earnie.

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