Re: file descriptors opened as text files

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc)]

At 04:10 PM 2/14/01, Jean Delvare wrote:

>Hello.
>
>I am opening a file with open(), and just read() from it. With Win 98, it
>is opened as a binary file. With Win 98 SE, it is opened as text file. How
>is it possible ?
>
>I'm not opening files on a mounted file system, but directly from Windows.
>Isn't supposed to be the same on all Windows versions ?


The output of cygcheck -s -r -v would undoubtedly point to the difference.
My guess is that you are either opening the file in a mounted file system
or the default mode for opening unmounted files is different on the two 
systems.  This has nothing to do with Windows.


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