To: dj AT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: O_TEXT/O_BINARY grief 
Date: 	Thu, 16 Jun 1994 14:38:31 PDT
From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com>


In message <9406162133 DOT AA20240 AT delorie>you write:
>> __setmode:
>>         movb    $8,%al
>>         jmp     turbo_assist
>> 
>> What actually is this doing?
>
>Calling a special hook into go32/exphdlr.c
>
>> Does DOS care out O_TEXT/O_BINARY?? Or is in within the application space?
>
>go32 does the actual work.
>

So why even bother?  Everything works and you have fewer
portability problems if you treat everything as binary...