From: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: RE: tar, zip, gzip troubles 14 Oct 1998 20:56:24 -0700 Message-ID: <19981014111846.6497.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1d.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: "Kubat, Karel" Cc: gw32 ---"Kubat, Karel" wrote: > > More on open/fopen in binary mode. > > Earnie Boyd writes: > > I suggest that you get the source code and find all of the open/fopen > > statements and properly add the necessary file mode processing > > switches. Make the appropriate changes to the open/fopen statements. > > You've got my vote on this! Only problem is, fopen() doesn't know a "rb" > or "wb" setting as I've found out. The only way I could think of while > porting stuff, was to rewrite fopen() into open() calls, using O_BINARY > as a flag. > > Are there better ways? > This is the first I've heard of this. "rb" and "wb" should work with fopen(), if not it's a bug and should be reported as such. Any others on the list seen this problem? == - \\||// -----------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o------------ -- earnie_boyd@yahoo.com -- -- http://freeyellow.com/members5/gw32 -- --------------ooo0O--O0ooo--------------- PS: Newbie's, you should visit my page. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".