Re: [MiNT] Here documents and CRLF

["Guido Flohr" <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>]

On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 05:56:59PM +0200, Julian Reschke wrote:
> > From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> > Of Guido Flohr
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 2:28 AM
> > To: MiNT mailing list
> > Subject: Re: [MiNT] Here documents and CRLF
> > ...
> > I think the only part of UNIXMODE that gets evaluated by the MiNTLib is
> > the "b" resp. the missing "b".  As far as I remember there is an internal
> > function _binmode() (or was it a global variable) that you can manually
> > set.  For FILE*-stream, you can also pass "rb" instead of "b" in the open
> > type argument.
> 
> Actually, you *have* to pass "b" if it is meant to be binary -- everything
> else is not proper ANSI-C.

Yes, but on POSIX systems the "b" is ignored (because there is no
difference between text and binary streams).  Does ANSI-C really demand
that the "b" is recognized?  My understanding was that it is more portable
to omit the "b" (and rather let M$-DOGgy systems fail).

Ciao

Guido
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