Hi John,
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:58 PM, John W. Krahn <jwkr...@shaw.ca> wrote: > > That depends on the operating system you are using. I use Linux so there > is no difference between "binary" and "text", except for those specific > applications that can't handle "binary" data. If you are on a system like > DOS/Windows then reading or writing "binary" data as "text" will cause > problems because line ending translation occurs with "text" files but not > with "binary" files. > I'm on a Linux system too; I guess I've used it for so long, I forgot about the situations when binary/text does matter (i.e., Windows). I see...so it doesn't matter. That would make sense since I just pipe to stdout right now and whether I'm sending "text" [ie., human-readable characters] or not, it all seems to work fine... Ray
