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]
>
>

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