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Article #11428Re: Manx vs. Lattice: the eternal story
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1989 22:53
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1989 22:53
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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. -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' Hackercorp. ...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.uu.net 'U`
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bcm!shell!nuchat!sugar!peter 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 Lines: 13