On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 02:29:39PM -0500, Sean Conner wrote: > It was thus said that the Great jrod...@hate.spamportal.net once stated: > > > > I'm _hoping_ this one is really not a software error, there are some > > basic pieces of functionality I expect software to usually get > > right, like transmitting data without modification. > > From statements like this, I suspect you've never encountered data > mangled durring transmission (hey! Where did that greater than sign > come from? [1]).
By usually, I meant that programs which are _trying_ to pass things along unmodified usually succeed. There's only so many ways to get fread and fwrite wrong. I'm well aware that programs often don't try. -josh
