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Subject: Re: O_APPEND
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 14:10:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Alain Magloire" <alain AT qnx DOT com>
In-Reply-To: <39C659B3.BE9E3DC3@softhome.net> from "Laurynas Biveinis" at Sep 18, 2000 08:06:43 PM
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> 
> Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> > But why the exclusive or? 
> 
> One of the reasons I can think about is that O_TEXT and O_BINARY are
> flags actually honored by DOS itself, as opposed to e.g. O_NOLINK.
> And this code seems to copy DOS-level info only. Disclaimer: I don't
> know this code. Probably Eli could comment on this, but he seems to 
> be offline (Japan again? Sydney? ;-)

Canada.

> Laurynas
> 

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alain