At 16:26 +0100 2002.03.06, Beat Pfister wrote:
>Now I have found the key point of the problem. I have allways had the perl
>code and the files on a sever volume. After I copyed all to the local disk
>it worked fine, the infile and the outfile were identical. I tested it with
>MacPerl 5.2.0r4 and 5.6.1b4 which I have installed in the meantime.

Ah!  So apparently it was doing the conversion, either on reading, writing,
or both.  Some file sharing technologies will do that, some won't.  Thanks
for solving the mystery!  :)

>Does someone know something about problems with EtherShare volumes?

I don't know anything about it, but I'd look into the docs, maybe the
behavior is configurable.

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