Re: [Chicken-users] open-input-file and binary mode

[John Cowan]

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 non-Posix system is raw Windows (i.e. non-Cygwin),
and ftell and fseek work fine.

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