Re: DOS Newline Character

From: John Hasler (john_at_dhh.gt.org)
Date: 11/19/04 

Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:25:56 -0600

Lew Pitcher writes:
> While fopen(3) doesn't /now/ make the distinction between "r" and "rb"...

As I said: there is no such mode.

> ...it /can/ make a distinction between them, and treat "r" in the
> proposed manner.

Thereby breaking everything that uses fopen on a binary stream.

> However, I don't like the idea; Unix text is unix text. It shouldn't
> /have/ to look like Wintendo text.

I think that those who propose these things are unaware that Unix is older
than Microsoft. 

-- 
John Hasler 
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA