On 2005-07-12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> As a side question, you mentioned opening files in binary
> mode, in case the code needs to run under Windows or
> cross-platform.  What would happen otherwise? Is it an issue
> of big little endian or some other issue?

The end-of-line characters might get converted -- even if
they're not really "end-of-line" characters in the file in
question.

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