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To: JT Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 19:16:52 +0300
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On 11 May 2001, at 9:41, JT Williams wrote:

> What is the purpose of the following bit of preprocessor code from
> `dtou.c' and `utod.c'?  Why would O_BINARY not already be defined?
> 
> #ifndef O_BINARY
> #define O_BINARY 0
> #endif
> 

It's added to make both utilities portable to other systems which don't
have O_BINARY. For example I can compile and use both under Linux
where there is no definition of  O_BINARY

Andris