gcc for WinNT

Michael Meissner meissner@cygnus.com
Thu Mar 13 09:41:00 GMT 1997


jdennis@ultranet.com ("John R. Dennis") writes:

> There are many ways to set binary vs. text mode on a file stream.
> 
> in fopen add either the b (binary) or the t (text) character in
> the mode string, e.g. fopen(filename "rb") to open a file for binary
> reading. 

Umm, if you want your code to be portable, don't use the t in the mode string.
Ie, use "r" for read-only text files, and "rb" for read-only binary files.

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