Ah, I was missing the last paragraph from the linked node. There is some magic mapping – I remember that much because I started learning Perl on Windows; but it happens elsewhere than what I thought – which I never found out first-hand because I left Windows behind at a time when I was still a Perl greenhorn.

Thanks for the correction. (And yes, I know the issue is touchy. :-))

I was going to ask a question to be sure whether I understood correctly, then I remembered binmode… and now it’s all coming back. Maybe I wasn’t so green back then; maybe it has simply been too long.

At least, if my regained understanding is right, my advice is sound anyway: that in general, you want to use \n and not worry about it; and that if you have files from other platforms, you’ll have to convert anyway.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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