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Re: Perl binmode problem on text mount


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Earl Chew wrote:

This code used to work on Perl 5.6.1-2 on Cygwin 1.3.10.

I've now moved to Perl 5.8.5-3 on Cygwin 1.5.11.

Here is the Perl program:

	binmode STDOUT;
	print "Hello\n";

1. Output to file on text mount

perl foo.pl > foo.txt ; od -c foo.txt

	0000000  H e l l o \r \n	# Perl 5.8.5-3 Cygwin 1.5.11
	0000000  H e l l o \n		# Perl 5.6.1-2 Cygwin 1.3.10
[ .. snip .. ]
This is expected behavior.  Unless you use raw writes (as "cat" does), the
mode of the file (text or binary) is determined *by the program that opens
the file*.  In the above case, the program is not perl, it's your shell.

I think you're telling me that "binmode STDOUT" has no effect. I find this counterintuitive.

Without "binmode STDOUT", I can see how your explanation would work.

Earl

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