From: thor@math.tu-berlin.de   
      
   On 08.10.2013 13:51, Joe Bentley wrote:   
   > I don't see any difference between using the binary open mode or not when   
   > writing text or binary files?  Is there a difference or am I missing   
   > something?   
      
   Yes, I afraid you are missing something. Not the whole world works like   
   Unix where the linefeed is represented by a single character. On some   
   other platforms, two characters are required. Thus, in the binary mode,   
   only a single character is written whenever a \n is written to a stream,   
   whereas in text mode, on some platforms two characters are written. The   
   same works in reverse direction for reading files.   
      
   Greetings,   
   	Thomas   
      
      
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