> "Steven D'Aprano" <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> writes
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/156258 That says that Windows NT 3.5 and NT 4 couldn't make a distinction between text and binary files. I don't think that advances your case. If they had changed the Windows behaviour, yes, but Windows 7 seems to be compatible with NT 3.5 rather than with DOS. Peter Bell. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list