Let me repeat it yet again: it should be easier to rewrite PerlIO stuff from scratch than try to fix bugs in it.
Example (on unix): unix2dos .tcshrc | perl -we 'binmode STDIN, ":crlf" or die; print while read STDIN, $_, 32000' Example: on DOSISH cat config.sys | perl -we "print while read STDIN, $_, 32000" You thing something as simple as this should work? No, it only prints the first line (on DOS), and a few random lines after this too (on Unix). I tried to debug it, but, as usual, got lost after the first two dozens of calls it makes to convert ONE "\r\n" pair to "\n". How knows how many calls it would make to finish this conversion. As you could guess, *all* of these two dozen calls are frivolous; since it is not clear what is the purpose of these calls, it is not clear which place in this chain of should be patched to work around this nonsense. (Yes, it makes a seek() in the process of conversion "\r\n" to "\n". This is why the call works - accidentally - with plain files.) Frustrated, Ilya
