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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Manx vs. Lattice: the eternal story
Keywords: plate shrimp
Message-ID: <3427@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 12 Feb 89 22:53:28 GMT
References: <9180@megaron.arizona.edu>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <9180@megaron.arizona.edu>, cjeffery@arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery) writes:
> In Aztec C, what must one do to fopen(filename, "wb")?  The documentation
> implies that this is the default condition, but I do not trust it.

There is no need for "wb" on the Amiga. AmigaDOS files look just like UNIX
files... they're stream-LF files. MS-DOS files aren't, and the C runtime
library has a kludge in it to make them look right unless you specify "b"
mode.

So, there's no "binary" mode on the Amiga.
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