From:	pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org (Peter J. Farley III)
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Subject:	Re: Problem with fstreams...
Date:	Sat, 30 Aug 1997 01:47:08 GMT
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ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire) wrote:
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>And in C++, ios::binary in the streap initializing.
>
>(What is ios::binary really? ios must be a class or something. Or maybe
>it's an enum?)

Paul,

Yes, it's an enum, part of lang\cxx\streambuf.h:

enum open_mode {
    in = _IO_INPUT,
    out = _IO_OUTPUT,
    ate = _IO_ATEND,
    app = _IO_APPEND,
    trunc = _IO_TRUNC,
    nocreate = _IO_NOCREATE,
    noreplace = _IO_NOREPLACE,
    binary = _IOS_BIN,
    bin = _IOS_BIN };

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Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org)

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