in reply to Re^2: getc skips ahead
in thread getc skips ahead

Also, the binmode documentation does not mention getc as one of the functions it affects, so who knew?
I don't really think it needs to, it already says
In other words: regardless of platform, use binmode() on binary data, like for example images.

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