tar, zip, gzip troubles

Wed Oct 14 04:27:00 GMT 1998

---"Kubat, Karel" <k.kubat@roccadefinance.nl> wrote:
>> More on open/fopen in binary mode.
>> Earnie Boyd writes:
> > I suggest that you get the source code and find all of the
open/fopen
> > statements and properly add the necessary file mode processing
> > switches. Make the appropriate changes to the open/fopen statements.
>> You've got my vote on this! Only problem is, fopen() doesn't know a
"rb"
> or "wb" setting as I've found out. The only way I could think of while
> porting stuff, was to rewrite fopen() into open() calls, using
O_BINARY
> as a flag.
>> Are there better ways?
>
This is the first I've heard of this. "rb" and "wb" should work with
fopen(), if not it's a bug and should be reported as such.
Any others on the list seen this problem?
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