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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-06-17 14:21:55 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2002-06-17 14:21:55 +0000
commita6445d6f86f35d439d396b8deb840ae3cb7a429e (patch)
tree037f73afbae73389774af5cc4b72355859c6f9b1 /lib
parentd5563ed7fd46e9485baaa3b43c79a6a71c7b4740 (diff)
downloadperl-a6445d6f86f35d439d396b8deb840ae3cb7a429e.tar.gz
:bytes is not the inverse of :crlf, either (from NI-S)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17272
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/PerlIO.pm6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/PerlIO.pm b/lib/PerlIO.pm
index 1ad295a5f1..9a4da3a2a3 100644
--- a/lib/PerlIO.pm
+++ b/lib/PerlIO.pm
@@ -33,8 +33,10 @@ PerlIO - On demand loader for PerlIO layers and root of PerlIO::* name space
=head1 SYNOPSIS
- open($fh,">:crlf", "my.txt")
- open($fh,">:bytes","his.jpg")
+ open($fh,">:crlf", "my.txt"); # portably open a text file for writing
+
+ open($fh,"<","his.jpg"); # portably open a binary file for reading
+ binmode($fh);
Shell:
PERLIO=perlio perl ....