TT> KK> fopen("c:\\testfile", w);    /*  this will work.  */
 
 TT> RS>    Yes, assuming w is a char pointer to a string, like
"wt" or some
 TT> RS> such.      
 
 TT>Except for the fact that "wt" is non-standard. You should
 TT>use "w" instead for text files (and of course "wb" for
 TT>binary files).

 GW> Why not use "wt"? It's a common language extension. The
only compiler
 GW> I've got here that doesn't provide the capability to set the default
 GW> open mode to binary rather than text is the IBM Visualage C++, so
 GW> always specifying the open type in fopen() is not (imho) a bad thing.

 GW> Borland (3.1 and BCOS2 1.0), MS (5.1, 6.0), TopSpeed and Watcom (11)
 GW> all use the global variable _fmode to set default open mode, and
 GW> default it to text mode.

   Yeah, I read your reply _after_ I've typed up mine.    Oh well, 
   I'll post it anyways.
   
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