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In article <1992Sep13.043839.8659@waggen.twuug.com> alpha@waggen.twuug.com (Joe Wright) writes:
>Using open() and read() and lseek() will usually guarantee
>non-portability.  These are OS functions, not C functions.
>More specifically, they are Unix functions and not MSDOS
>functions.  I strongly reccommend fopen(), fseek(), etc.
>
>That aside, the main reason that seek doesn't work the same
>on Unix text files and DOS text files is that DOS uses two
>characters, \r\n, to terminate a line while Unix uses only \n.

but when we use open("foo.c", O_RDONLY|O_TEXT) in MSDOS,
(the O_TEXT bit is default, I put here just for emphasizing)
open() is supposed to skip the \r, so shouldn't have any problem.
it turns out the open() in TEXT mode has problem in BC++2.0

>So the DOS text file has a few more characters in it than
>the Unix one.
>
>-- 
>Joe Wright  alpha@waggen.twuug.com  alpha@wyvern.twuug.com


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