Guido Draheim wrote:
> The "b" is an ansi-C requirement, however there may be some systems
> that are simply not compliant. [...] I just
> found second hand information that some DEC ultrix libc did barf
> at "b".
I did a bit of web digging, and I found first hand information in a
tex package dating back to 14-Aug-87...
> For non-Unix operating systems, it is generally
> necessary to open binary files differently than
> text files, since the C-runtime libraries use
> that distinction to decide how to translate Unix
> line terminators. Every system so far has used
> the letter "b" in the fopen() mode string to
> select this mode, and every Unix system ignores
> the "b", except Ultrix, which raises a run-time
> error, sigh... I have therefore replaced the
> mode string by RB_OPEN and WB_OPEN
with the ongoing success of windows however, I assume that no younger
system will have ever had this bug in its libc. And it *is* a bug.
-- guido Edel sei der Mensch, hilfreich und gut
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