As Robert Eden mentioned it looks like the file corruption was caused
caused by getprint() translating line endings or forcing ASCII mode
(not sure which).
I'm not sure it is a good idea for getprint() to translate line
endings without asking - after all it seems fairly unrelated to the
main task of downloading - but if you think the current behaviour is
correct it should be documented. Something like
getprint($url)
Get and print a document identified by a URL. The document
is printed to STDOUT as data is received from the
network. The document is treated as text (rather than
binary) so line endings and the like may be converted.
I hope that you can make these two documentation changes.
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Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
