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From: greyham@hades.OZ (Greyham Stoney)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: fopen: "r" |/& "rb"? (was Re: utility to find strings in a file)
Message-ID: <128@hades.OZ>
Date: 13 Feb 89 21:42:23 GMT
References: <659@mks.UUCP>
Organization: Ausonics Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia
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in article <659@mks.UUCP>, wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) says:
> 
> I've also compiled this on U**x and MS-DOS.  The only change required
> for DOS was that the fopen() had to have binary mode added, so it looked
> like this:
> 
> 		fopen(argv[arg], "rb")
> 
> This prevents DOS from returning EOF when it reads a ^Z character.

Can someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the same code (namely "rb") should
work for both shouldn't it?. In the MesSDOS case, it will see the "b" and
hence open the file in binary mode; in the Unix/Minix case it only looks at
the first character of the string anyway, so it sees the "r" and opens the
file as you would expect. So, can't everyone use "rb" when they know it's
a "binary" file {to make it easier for those who have to cope with MSDOS, but
mightn't spot the problem}. Right? Wrong? Comments?
							Greyham

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