Well then, I wonder what its doing in XML-Parser. I can't imagine some valid
XML that would depend on reading CRLF literally, but then, I'm no expert.
Perhaps it's possible to have quoted data in XML files that contains ^Z? If so,
then maybe the correct change to XML-Parser would be:
binmode(FILE) if ($^O eq 'Windows);
(or whatever the ID is for Windows),
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Sugalski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 10:02 AM
> To: Jordan Henderson; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: does binmode() work properly on VMS?
>
>
> At 09:41 AM 2/16/00 -0500, Jordan Henderson wrote:
> >I'm wondering if the use of binmode() is really a good idea
> in any case.
> >
> >It has no effect on Unix systems. My guess is that on
> Windows systems it
> >allows
> >reading '\r' for '\n'. I guess there's a potential for
> problems in that case
> >for quoted strings or something. I guess I would be
> surprised if XML was
> >dependent on differing whitespace, but I'm no expert here.
>
> It does two things on Windows:
>
> 1) It allows reading past a ^Z in a file (which is a good thing :)
> 2) It disables CRLF->LF translation
>
> Not quite as big a change in behaviour as you get when binmode()ing a
> milti-index RMS file... :)
>
> Dan
>
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