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Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 22:49:46 +0100
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp@familiehaase.de>
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Subject: Re: Perl binmode problem on text mount
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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Pipes are binmode by default.

That means they are just as pipes are ought to be, "what goes in comes
out again, not more and not less"?

Or does it mean that a pipe always strips \r?
Then the cat example of the OP doesn't count at all.

Gerrit
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