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From: minow@mountn.dec.com (Martin Minow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Carriage Returns in ascii files
Message-ID: <1806@mountn.dec.com>
Date: 1 Aug 90 00:06:56 GMT
References: <14711@csli.Stanford.EDU> <5434@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: minow@bolt.enet.dec.com (Martin Minow)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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In article <5434@castle.ed.ac.uk> nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) notes that
THINK C converts '\r' to '\n' when it reads files (and converts in the other
direction when it writes files):
>
>This whole business really is a pain, especially if you want to start
>doing things with binary files passed between different hosts.
>
If you open the file as fopen("file", "rb" [or "wb"]), THINK C supresses
conversion.  The 'b' (binary) mode is part of the ANSI C standard.  It
should be mentioned in the THINK C library documentation.

Martin Minow
minow@bolt.enet.dec.com