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From: | DavMac AT iname DOT com (Davin McCall) |
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Subject: | Re: Binary and Text Files |
Date: | Tue, 24 Aug 1999 10:18:40 GMT |
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(At least in C): Most file reading operations will translate the standard DOS "carriage-return,line-feed" combination into a plain line-feed on a read and vice-versa on a write when dealing with a file opened in text mode. In binary mode, there is no such conversion performed. Davin. On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 01:33:05 -0700, "Al Morgan" <muaddib AT proaxis DOT com> wrote: >This is probably a stupid question, but what's the difference between >opening a file in binary mode as opposed to text mode? > >ifstream binary_file; >binary_file.open("info.dat", ios::binary); > >as opposed to > >ifstream text_file; >text_file.open("info.dat"); // text is the default. > >Thanks in advance > Al [muaddib AT proaxis DOT com] > > __________________________________________________________ *** davmac - sharkin'!! davmac AT iname DOT com *** my programming page: http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~davmac/
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