To: Eric Backus <ericb AT lsid DOT hp DOT com>
Cc: mcastle AT umr DOT edu, eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp)
Subject: Re: stdin, stdout and friends, was: fstat() yet again 
Date: 	Tue, 31 May 1994 10:04:07 PDT
From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com>



What does O_BINARY actually do?

In a DOS read call, its strictly binary... 

I had my own I/O library running on DOS, and didn't
have a problem with binary/non-binary (I treated 
everything as binary as on Unix).

I also treated \n as \n, instead of \n\r.  Nothing
seemed to mind...

marty