Re: Help me translate into C

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From: Tom Neff
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1988 16:09

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In article <11475@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>  [Turbo C?] also uses a few things like O_BINARY which means untranslated on
>systems having funny filetypes like DOS and VMS.

Doug Gwyn answered Bill's questions in detail.  I just want to point out
that MS-DOS has no "funny filetypes."  All typing is by convention only,
everything is really just a string of bytes.  The O_BINARY flag controls
the way the DOS "C" runtime behaves on things like end-of-file (soft via
^Z or hard via filesize) and newline (swallow ^M's or not).

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From: tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff)
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Subject: Re: Help me translate into C
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Date: 15 Jul 88 16:09:07 GMT
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