Date: Mon, 20 Jun 94 10:04:46 JST
From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To: leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com
Cc: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: O_TEXT/O_BINARY grief

   My contention is I have never seen a problem treating everything as binary.

   If you have code which explicitly tests for CR-LF, then you have trouble...

I basically agree with you Marty, except that reading all those stupid
^Ms in 8-bit-clean mode under Nihongo Emacs sometimes drives me batty.
So I DOS2Unix them....  No sweat.

   I just looked at my Aztec C manuals (I used Aztec on 6502, 8085 CP/M and
   Ms/Dos).   They don't know about or care about TEXT/BINARY mode...

   I've shuffled hundreds of programs over the years this way between
   MS-dog and Unix and I never saw anything bad happen...

   marty


--Steve