Re: RFC 69 (v1) Standardize input record separator (for

On Wed, 09 Aug 2000, Bart Lateur wrote:
> On 09 Aug 2000 12:00:55 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> 
> >There was no mention of cross-platform line-ending support.
> 
> >I suggested a while ago on p5p an improved binmode(), that might do
> >such magic among other things.
> 
> Then it should do the *inverse* thing that binmode() does. This magic
> should only apply to text files, for whatever platform they originate
> from. If a file is binmode'd, Perl should keep the data as is, no
> conversion (or even interpretation) of the input, whatsoever.

Isn't that what the nebulous line disciplines are supposed to handle?

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