On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 9:06 PM, John Cowan co...@mercury.ccil.org wrote:
Michele La Monaca scripsit:
AFAICT, Posix systems treat text files as binaries even if you don't
explicitly say so. Windows does not.
That's true, but the only difference is that CR-LF is mapped to CR
in text mode
Michele La Monaca scripsit:
So, let me understand, are you comfortable about that?
$ cat -e f.txt
^Z1234$
(with-input-from-file f.txt read-line) ;; unix
\x1a1234
(with-input-from-file f.txt read-line) ;; windows
!eof
It's annoying in principle, but not in practice. Text files don't
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 7:22 PM, John Cowan co...@mercury.ccil.org wrote:
Michele La Monaca scripsit:
So, let me understand, are you comfortable about that?
$ cat -e f.txt
^Z1234$
(with-input-from-file f.txt read-line) ;; unix
\x1a1234
(with-input-from-file f.txt read-line) ;; windows
Michele La Monaca scripsit:
... but binaries do. Yet, open-input-file will open them as text files
in Windows and as binaries in Unix (by default).
The short answer to that is that there is a way of opening binary
files as binary: with (open-input-file foo #:binary) in Chicken,
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 8:04 PM, John Cowan co...@mercury.ccil.org wrote:
Michele La Monaca scripsit:
... but binaries do. Yet, open-input-file will open them as text files
in Windows and as binaries in Unix (by default).
The short answer to that is that there is a way of opening binary
Michele La Monaca scripsit:
On the same page at last. On my first mail I was just asking to make
(open-input-file FILE #:binary) the default behaviour (it is already
so in Unix given there's no such a text mode there). Bad idea?
I think so. The default mode of open-input-file should read
Hi,
I think it would be better to change open-input-file default mode to binary.
While Posix systems doesn't care, on non-Posix ones ftell and fseek
might not work properly.
For example, on Windows:
$ cat f.txt
1
2
3
4
(call-with-input-file f.txt (lambda (p) (read-string 4 p)
(file-position
Michele La Monaca scripsit:
I think it would be better to change open-input-file default mode to binary.
Over my dead body. The last thing I want is random CRs in text files.
While Posix systems doesn't care, on non-Posix ones ftell and fseek
might not work properly.
In practice the only
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 6:20 PM, John Cowan co...@mercury.ccil.org wrote:
Michele La Monaca scripsit:
I think it would be better to change open-input-file default mode to binary.
Over my dead body. The last thing I want is random CRs in text files.
Can you elaborate this sentence, please?
Michele La Monaca scripsit:
AFAICT, Posix systems treat text files as binaries even if you don't
explicitly say so. Windows does not.
That's true, but the only difference is that CR-LF is mapped to CR
in text mode input and the other way around in text mode output, and ^Z
is treated as EOF in
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