Zdeněk Pavlas added the comment:

> if they want binary data, they will have to open files in binary mode.

There were binary files.  *THEN* dos and mac came with text files.  To
keep the *ORIGINAL* semantics we have to add *NEW* flags to open/fopen.
 Looks we'll run out of O_ bitfields and letters quite soon.  64bit
words and unicode alphabet finally start to make sense... :)

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