From: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com ("Marty Leisner") Subject: Re: ASCII and BINARY files. Why? (the conversation which won't die) 13 Feb 1997 18:34:20 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <9702132251.AA17479.cygnus.gnu-win32@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 Original-To: Jim Balter Original-Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Feb 1997 19:25:18 PST." <32FE951E.2A38@netcom.com> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com I vote for only binary...but at a minimum, have an environment variable to put in into strict binary (for posix I/O) and strip the extra \n\r into \n in stdio) I want to be able to change this behavior at run time if I use the defaults. There was an attitude "its easy if you do it right". So is everything. -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".