[CF-Devel] Patch: collect_images.pl

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      The basic problem is that Windows differentiates between text files
     
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      (translate between \n and \r\n) and binary files, whereas UNIX doesn't. So
     
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      "text mode" works just fine on binary files in UNIX, but breaks horribly
     
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      under Windows (anything resembling \r\n gets mangled on read, and all \n 
     
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      gets mangled on write). Perl uses text mode by default, which is fine for
     
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      UNIX, but breaks on Windows when you manipulate binary files.
     
     
Ok, but does forcing binary mode, as my patch does, break under UNIX?
Besides, for crossfire.[01] containing the whole PNGs, it's just weird to use
TEXT mode, and not binary mode, even if it happens to work under UNIX :)

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Nicolas 'Ryo'


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