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[Fredrik Lundh]

From: "Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com>

Gordon McMillan wrote:
> > First, are there platforms other than DOS/Windows/Win32 where there
> > is a difference between text and binary mode?
> 
> There's a theoretical difference on *nix - otherwise, they wouldn't 
> have made up the distinction!

who are "they?"

fwiw, the ANSI C rationale mentions Unix as the
special case here... go figure ;-)

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