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   From: troplin@bluewin.ch   
      
   Tobias Müller  wrote:   
   > 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?   
   >   
   > The difference is the handling of newlines. Text mode normalizes all   
   > different newline conventions (\r\n, \r, \n) to just \n.   
      
   That's of course the behavior of input streams, for output streams it's the   
   other way round: it replaces \n with the specific newline character   
   (sequence) for the current platform.   
      
   Sorry for the confusion   
      
   Tobi   
      
      
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