On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:56:54PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >The fact that there are no standards for O_TEXT or "rt"/"wt" didn't > >help my confusion any. > > Well, I guess just relying on the "common sense" philosophy of "I told > it do do this, so that's what I'd expect it to do" is something that > can't be relied on. > > >It seems that "wt" is rather useless, then. If one wanted to always > >produce a file with CRLF line endings, she'd open it with O_BINARY and > >use "\r\n" sequences for line endings. > > Let's apply some common sense here, too. You specify "wt", what would > you expect? You'd expect a file with CRLF endings, i.e., LF should be > translated to CRLF. And, amazingly enough, that's what you get.
Yes, I see, thanks. The one point of this discussion that still remains valid is that <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-textbinary.html> needs to be updated to reflect the availability of "rt"/"wt" modes for fopen(). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA
