Prerequisite Concepts		Related Syntax
Files: binary and text-mode

The binary or text-mode keywords affect the automatic processing of newlines in the file being read. When you specify the mode binary, no processing is performed on the newlines. When you specify the mode text-mode, the following sequences are translated to a single newline (ASCII 10) character:

• carriage return followed by a newline ("%13#%10#")
• carriage return alone ("%13#")
• newline alone ("%10#")

When neither mode is specified, on a UNIX system, the file is treated as a binary-mode file. (On UNIX systems, the newline (ASCII 10) character is the system-specific newline sequence, so no transformation is necessary for text files.) On all non-UNIX systems, the file is treated as a text-mode file.

Prerequisite Concepts      Input

Related Syntax    binary    file    text-mode

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