Re: fopen: default open mode

[Bill Denney]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Matthias Brennwald wrote:

> If I use fopen, I get a warning that the default mode is now binary.
> Why? What is this warning trying to tell me? Is there a way to
> explicitly tell fopen to use ASCII instead of binary?
>
> I have Octave 2.1.72 on Mac OS X 10.4.
>
> Example:
>
> > fn = tempname;
> > fopen(fn,'w')
> > warning: fopen: default open mode is now binary

To tell octave to use text mode, you would want to do

fopen(fn,'wt')

instead of

fopen(fn,'w')

Bill

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