>>>>> "BL" == Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BL> On 09 Aug 2000 12:00:55 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
>> There was no mention of cross-platform line-ending support.
>> I suggested a while ago on p5p an improved binmode(), that might do
>> such magic among other things.
BL> Then it should do the *inverse* thing that binmode() does. This magic
BL> should only apply to text files, for whatever platform they originate
BL> from. If a file is binmode'd, Perl should keep the data as is, no
BL> conversion (or even interpretation) of the input, whatsoever.
It doesn't have to be called binmode(). Let's call it readmode().
readmode(FOO, "CRLF");
readmode(FOO, "os:macintosh");
readmode(FOO, "os:MVS encoding:ebcdiic");
Wait, this sounds like a job for input/output filters.
Forget I said anything.
<chaim>
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