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From: bhoughto@cmdnfs.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: DVItoPS on DECstation
Keywords: fopen, binary-mode
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Date: 15 Oct 90 16:25:33 GMT
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In article <1990Oct13.204721.8027@maths.tcd.ie> tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes:
>(There was no problem once all the "rb"'s and "wb"'s
>were changed to "r" and "w".)

If your compiler claims ANSI conformance and does this, then it's broken.

>Is this relying on the compiler's generosity?

No, it's relying on ANSI X3.159-1989, section 4.9.5.3 The fopen Function,
pp. 130, ll. 28-9.

When did DEC get an ANSI compiler?

				--Blair
				  "They still don't have an X X."