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in reply to File::Slurp and encryption

File::Slurp is broken on Windows for certain builds of Perl, due to sysread() not working correctly. See also Re^5: File::Slurp bug? Should I bother?.

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Re^2: File::Slurp and encryption
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 21, 2005 at 20:54 UTC
    That shouldn't be a problem, since he should be using binmode anyway. ("These built-ins now always operate in 'binary' mode.")
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