Date:	Wed, 9 Apr 1997 13:34:06 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: read reads too less under DOS but enough under linux
In-Reply-To:	<334A8639.6204@cs.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.970409133128.3639Q-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, John M. Aldrich wrote:

> DOS text files use a CR/LF combination to designate the end of a line,
> while Unix text files use only a CR.  Thus, DOS text files are larger
> than the corresponding Unix file.  For this reason, you should NEVER
> open a text file in binary mode.

That would be swell, but the problem is that you don't always know whether
the file is a text or a binary one.  For that reason, sometimes you have
no alternative but to open it in binary mode and add special tests for the
CR-LF pairs.  For examples, see the DJGPP ports of Grep and Textutils. 

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