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Re: CR-LF handling behavior of SED changed recently - this breaks a lot of MinGW cross build scripts

Greetings, Soegtrop, Michael!

> Why should anybody use "wb" mode to open a file in a Linux centric app

Because it removes ambiguity.
Everybody should use binary IO unless they explicitly want text behavior.
Not just because they don't care.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, June 9, 2017 18:29:10

Sorry for my terrible english...


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