From: Jos Backus <jos@...>
Date: 2004-12-13T05:49:35+09:00
Subject: Re: [patch] Obtaining mode information on an IO object

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 03:20:18AM +0900, Florian Frank wrote:
> Will the modes change if IO#binmode is called on an existing IO object? 
> At the moment it doesn't seem possible at all to find out if a given IO 
> object is in binary mode or not.

binmode is useful only in MS-DOS/Windows environments and has no effect on
Unix. I haven't tried it but looking at the code the answer methinks is yes.

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