Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 08:10:19 -0400
From: dj (DJ Delorie)
Message-Id: <199604141210.IAA09430@delorie.com>
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC: leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960414082333.1640I-100000@is> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 14 Apr 1996 08:31:29 +0200 (IST))
Subject: Re: O_BINARY/O_TEXT on open


> I think the cleanest way is to get FSF (or at least the individuals who 
> maintain the different packages) to finally recognize that some systems 
> do need to know about binary files, and include O_BINARY in the original 
> sources where they are needed.  They can always define it to be 0 on Unix 
> systems.

My preferred solution is to add this to the beginning of the relevent
source files:

	#ifndef O_BINARY
	#define O_BINARY 0
	#endif

Then just use O_BINARY where needed.  You can put O_TEXT in there if
you need to, but I always leave the default as text.