Hi Tom,

You wrote to Robin Sheppard:

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).

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

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

George

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