in reply to Re^2: Activestate open unix filehandle
in thread Activestate open unix filehandle

Indeed. I must be suffering a mild form of insanity. :-)

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Re^4: Activestate open unix filehandle
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 01, 2006 at 21:18 UTC
    You might have been thinking of the Mac where \n is \x0D (and \r is \x0A?). While using binmode and \n will work on Windows, using binmode and \x0A is required for portability.