From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2005-10-26T16:04:25+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby gives different answer for checksum of files on windows and FreeBSD?

Sean O'Halpin schrieb:
> On 10/25/05, daz <dooby@d10.karoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>>C's "fopen" seems to have missed this fact (??)
> 
> It's part of ANSI C for stdio to open files by default in text mode.
> This does nothing on Unix but it converts CRLF (\r\n) to LF (\n) on
> Windows. This means you can write portable text processing programs in
> C (and in Ruby). If you're handling binary, you have to know what
> you're doing to write portable programs - binmode is the least of it.
> 
> Changing to binmode by default would cause a lot more confusion for
> newbies and casual programmers on Windows. There'd be a lot of "how do
> I get rid of this \r character?" posts for a start. I reckon a lot
> more than binmode causes.

Thanks to you and Daz for the detailed answer. So it seems that the 
editors you normally use make a difference whether you prefer text or 
binary mode.

Regards,
Pit