DW> KK>   However... DOS is not a reasonable OS, as you know. 
DW>   More precisely, PC-DOS (aka MS-DOS) isn't reasonable.
DW>   There are other Disk Operating Systems, which are equally
DW>   entitled to the acronym DOS, which are more sanely organized.
   No DOS programmer would ever argue with you on that one.
   Having run into the default text file open mode once or
   twice cures one of it. That is why BASIC specifically has
   a BINARY mode. It is designed to work with MS DOS and the
   default text mode for file access.
> ] The Sky is full of Good and Bad that Mortals Never Know.....
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