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in thread Manipulating Binary files

If the binary file is very large and the "\x0d\x0a" comes late in the file, then <INPUT> is going to read most of the file into memory, which may fail due to the above considerations.

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Re: (tye)Re3: Manipulating Binary files
by MeowChow (Vicar) on May 14, 2001 at 22:15 UTC
    I would guess that the 0D-OA sequence appears with regularity in the file, considering that it's the binary record seperator for DOS/Win32 systems, equivalent to "\n" in the *nix world. 
       MeowChow                                   
               s aamecha.s a..a\u$&owag.print
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