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Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 17:30:58 -0400
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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To: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Install 1.3.22-1 problem - default text file type - DOS
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Brian Dessent wrote:

> Francis Harvey wrote:
> 
> 
>>Thanks.  I have now replaced \n with \r\n every place I used \n in a
>>character string.  I have made sure not to switch the single character
>>when used separately from a string.  Everything appears to work fine
>>now.
> 
> 
> But that completely misses the point of "text" mode.  You should always
> use just "\n" in your strings in the source code, and open any files
> containing text in "text" mode i.e. fopen("foo", "rt").  That way, when
> you read and write to the file "\n" will be converted to "\r\n" by the
> io library, but your code will be portable to any other posix system.
> 
> If you explicitly use "\r\n" in your program then you have to make sure
> the file is always opened in binary mode otherwise you'll could get
                      ^^^^^^
                   opened and _written_
> "\r\r\n" as your line delimiter.
> 
> Brian


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