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From: rearl@watnxt3.ucr.edu (Robert Earl)
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Subject: Re: MS-Dos perl: open in binary mode?
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Date: 19 May 91 22:03:39 GMT
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In-reply-to: shj@login.dkuug.dk's message of 19 May 91 17:28:04 GMT

In article <shj.674674084@dkuugin> shj@login.dkuug.dk (Stig Jacobsen) writes:

|   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.


binmode(HANDLE) after opening it, but *before* doing any operations
(input, output, seek?) on it.


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