Re: [FWP] beauty vs. brains

[Steven Lembark <lembark@wrkhors.com>]

> >   read(FILE, $file, -s FILE);
> 
> Oooh, very cute.  So does this work on Windows?  -s returns the number
> of bytes in the file, but does read() want a character count or a byte
> count?

camel, p. 202:

	...LENGTH bytes of data into variable SCALAR from
	the specified FILEHANDLE.

read is pretty much a front end onto fread so far as i know
(at least that what blows up in the traces i've run trying
to move 150GB files through a 32-bit clean copy of perl :-).
ditto for sysread.

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