From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: tmpfile() and binary mode in DJGPP
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 22:31:29 +0000
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[Sorry for the duplicate posting... error correction below]

X DOT PONS AT UAB DOT ES wrote:
> 
> We have "discovered" that tmpfile() opens the temporay file in
> the mode (binary or text) resulting from :
>      _fmode & O_TEXT
> As the usual mode is text, the temporary file is created in text mode.

This is a known bug and a patch to fix it has already been posted; look
at bug report #000143 at <http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/bugs/>.

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