From: sof <unknown>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 15:25:08 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: [project @ 2003-06-06 15:25:08 by sof]
X-Git-Tag: Approx_11550_changesets_converted~799
X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6eb0b82ea41cd45f576d96951a352db2ae59f769;p=ghc-hetmet.git

[project @ 2003-06-06 15:25:08 by sof]
upd binary mode addition
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diff --git a/ghc/docs/users_guide/win32-dlls.sgml b/ghc/docs/users_guide/win32-dlls.sgml
index 48eb7ab..b1f894d 100644
--- a/ghc/docs/users_guide/win32-dlls.sgml
+++ b/ghc/docs/users_guide/win32-dlls.sgml
@@ -54,11 +54,14 @@ Some of the standard Haskell libraries behave slightly differently on Windows.
 
 <itemizedlist>
 <listitem> <para>
-On Windows, the '<literal>^Z</literal>' character is interpreted as end-of-file, so
-if you read a file containing this character the file will appear to end just before it.
-To subvert this behaviour, you can put the file into Binary
-mode using <literal>GHC.Handle.hSetBinaryMode</literal>. (unfortunately this
-function isn't available form anywhere more stable, yet).
+On Windows, the '<literal>^Z</literal>' character is interpreted as an
+end-of-file character, so if you read a file containing this character
+the file will appear to end just before it. To avoid this,
+use <literal>IOExts.openFileEx</literal> to open a file in binary
+(untranslated) mode or change an already opened file handle into
+binary mode using <literal>IOExts.hSetBinaryMode</literal>. The
+<literal>IOExts</literal> module is part of the
+<literal>lang</literal> package.
 </para>
 </listitem>
 </itemizedlist>