That's cause <> is magic (see Dangerous diamonds!), and ARGV isn't open when you binmode.

`perldoc open'. Try something like perl -Mopen=IN,:raw,OUT,:raw -pi~ -e "s/\cM//"

MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"

I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).

** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.