Re: VMS::IndexedFile and FDL (was Re: binmode ())

[Brad Hughes]

Peter Prymmer wrote:
> 
> > Actually, I thought C<binmode()> was a NOOP on VMS.
> 
> I think that perl's CORE::binmode() is but VMS::Stdio::binmode() really
> does do a freopen() on the filehandle.  Nico would like to add "ctx=bin"
> to avoid CR insertion for mailbox talking to STDIN.

Ah.  C<freopen()> looks to be somehow associated with C and
therefore Inherently Evil.

Brad