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Paul Prescod paul at prescod.net
Thu Jul 1 10:12:18 EDT 1999 
Gordon McMillan wrote:
> 
> How 'bout opening in binary, and munging line endings yourself just
> before returning the message? 

First, are there platforms other than DOS/Windows/Win32 where there is a
difference between text and binary mode? I didn't want to munge things
myself because I'm not sure if what is the "right" munge on the Mac, for
instance. Can I just do a search and replace for CR/LF -> CR on all
platforms, all of the time?

> If you can't use tell(), you can't trust seek(), either.

Good point.

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 Paul Prescod  - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself
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