Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:55:35 +0200
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> From: "Rafal Maj" <r_maj AT poczta DOT onet DOT pl>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 21:34:22 +0200
> 
> I think ther is bug in I/O binary mode :

No, this isn't a bug.

> I can't open ofstream / ifstream in ios::binary mode.
> When I use :
>   ifstream plik;  plik.open("test.txt",ios::binary); plik<<"OK ;)";
> plik.close();
> then test.txt is empty. When I don't use ios::binary, then everything is OK.

See section 9.4 of the FAQ, it's all there: you need to say
"ios:binary | ios:out", and then it will work.

One of the libstdc++ maintainers explained some time ago that this is
how the C++ library is supposed to work.

> Where I can download new version of  DJGPP that don't have this bug,
> or how can I do workaround of this bug ?

Please don't jump to conclusions too quickly.  Most of the problems we
meet as programmers are our own bugs.