Mike Meyer wrote: > I watched the Unix world grow up, and it ain't normal to me.
Since there's no distinction between a file opened in binary mode and in text mode on Unix, there is no difference. > I don't > think I've ever written a program that wrote binary data to standard > out, not in nearly 30 years of unix programming. I've written lots of > things whose standard out was designed specifically to be read by > another program, but never as binary data. Plenty of applications use that functionality and depend on it. See cjpeg, djpeg, the pbmplus library, and so forth. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Every human being is a problem in search of a solution. -- Ashley Montagu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
