On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Donn Cave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doesn't hGetLine imply text mode? What does "Line" mean, otherwise?
On normal operating systems, "line" means until you reach a '\n' character. In fact, that's also what it means when reading in text mode, it's just that when in text mode on DOS-descended systems, the character sequence "\r\n" is converted to "\n" by the operating system. David _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe