Re: [MiNT] Here documents and CRLF

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>]

"Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de> writes:

|> > From: Andreas Schwab [mailto:schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de]
|> > Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 10:53 AM
|> > To: reschke@muenster.de
|> > Cc: Guido Flohr; MiNT mailing list
|> > Subject: Re: [MiNT] Here documents and CRLF
|> >
|> >
|> > "Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de> writes:
|> >
|> > |> Keep in mind that the standard line delimiter for TOS systems can't be
|> > |> changed just by saying "we want it the UNIX way". There are
|> > lots of sources
|> > |> of text information on a TOS system, and except for some ports
|> > of UNIX tools
|> > |> these files always will have CR/LF (not to speak of text files that you
|> > |> might have copied from -- gasp -- a DOS/Windows system).
|> >
|> > But if you set 'b' in UNIXMODE you tell MiNTlib that your system is POSIX
|> > compliant in this area, so your get what you deserve if it is not.
|> >
|> > If all you care is POSIX then "r" and "rb" are one and the same.
|> 
|> However then stdin and stdout are treated as binary, which they aren't (in
|> most cases).

In POSIX text == binary.  Your system is POSIX.  You are done.

Andreas.

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