On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Warren Jones wrote: > Sockets default to :crlf mode with perl 5.8.0. This is a change > from the default behavior with 5.6. What's more, "binmode( $socket )" > seems to have no effect. The only way I've been able to get a raw > mode socket is to "set PERLIO=:raw" before the program starts. > I'm not the first to discover the problem, which is discussed here:
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/1292668 Nick Ing-Simmons wrote in reply in http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/1292758: > I was not aware that 5.6.1 special cased sockets. The right > way to make things binary is (as it always has been since > perl4): > binmode($socket); I don't understand the situation well enough to know if he is apologizing or disagreeing :-) -- Greg Matheson Practitioners just do it. Chinmin College Reflective Practitioners just think they did it. Taiwan Penpals Archive <URL: http://netcity.hinet.net/kurage>
