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- From: diamond@jit345.bad.jit.dec.com (Norman Diamond)
- Subject: Re: File mode
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.014103.28869@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Reply-To: diamond@jit.dec.com (Norman Diamond)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan , Tokyo
- References: <1992Aug12.051036.13224@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 01:41:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug12.051036.13224@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (John D. Mitchell) writes:
- >I've looked through the standard but haven't found any indication of
- >whether or not the file mode specifiers are case sensitive or not (i.e. is
- >a file mode "b+" == "B+")?
-
- The standard defines the effects of several mode specifiers, all of which
- are in lower case. ("b+" is not among them, though "rb+" etc. are.)
- The standard does not define the effects of mode specifiers in upper case.
- Implementations are allowed to provide extensions, but portable programs
- do not depend on them, and strictly conforming programs cannot.
- --
- Norman Diamond diamond@jit081.enet.dec.com
- If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.
- "Yeah -- bad wiring. That was probably it. Very bad."
-