Re: RFC 69 (v1) Standardize input record separator (for

[Bart Lateur]

On 09 Aug 2000 12:00:55 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:

>There was no mention of cross-platform line-ending support.

>I suggested a while ago on p5p an improved binmode(), that might do
>such magic among other things.

Then it should do the *inverse* thing that binmode() does. This magic
should only apply to text files, for whatever platform they originate
from. If a file is binmode'd, Perl should keep the data as is, no
conversion (or even interpretation) of the input, whatsoever.

-- 
        Bart.