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From: shj@login.dkuug.dk (Stig Jacobsen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: MS-Dos perl: open in binary mode?
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Date: 19 May 91 17:28:04 GMT
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Does anyone know how to open a file in binary mode under MS-Dos?
The usual,

   open(HANDLE, "file");

.. opens the file in text mode, so my read's fail after having
encountered a ctrl-z in a binary file..

I'm using MS-Perl 3.0pl41.
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Stig Jacobsen
shj@login.dkuug.dk / sysadm