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:And well, PPM isn't our fault... (:-)) --[[User:Dmitry-kazakov|Dmitry-kazakov]] 12:17, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
:: Binary mode also makes sense a lot of the time on Windows, where for text files the end of line is a multibyte symbol and there is an end-of-file symbol (^Z, which happens to be the official [[ASCII]] EOF character). By comparison, (linear) binary files are just a sequence of bytes. Then there's record-oriented files, but they're seriously out of favor these days; people use proper transactional databases like [[sqlite]] instead. —[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 12:03, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
::: I agree that handling text files in binary mode is easier under Windows. But let's do not forget, that the reason for that is that Windows text files are broken. Nobody cares if the conventions of text files, because these are not enforced. And they are not enforced because you can open a text file in binary mode and converse. A properly designed file system would never allow this. Guess what would happen if somebody opened database files as texts? --[[User:Dmitry-kazakov|Dmitry-kazakov]] 08:53, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
== exception propagation in Ada. ==
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