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

[John Cowan]

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 ordinary
(non-foreign) text files while still presenting the Posix mode of lines
terminated by a single newline character.  That's the way CLI programs
on Windows normally work.

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