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From: nick@lfcs.cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: \r, \n conversion in general (Re: Carriage Returns in ascii files)
Message-ID: <5453@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 1 Aug 90 11:25:07 GMT
References: <14711@csli.Stanford.EDU> <5434@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1806@mountn.dec.com>
Reply-To: nick@lfcs.cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Organization: Computer Science, Edinburgh University
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In article <1806@mountn.dec.com>, minow@mountn.dec.com (Martin Minow) writes:
> 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.

Makes sense. In fact, I was thinking of the more general problems when
passing files to/from other machines. The \n - \r conversion in our
Unix gateway is done automagically (according to whether the file type
is TEXT and/or the owner is "unix" and/or the file exists and/or the
file has some special finder info and/or ...) so moving binary files
around requires some care.

Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
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