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[sixxie]

Yes, that all makes sense, or rather it doesn't make any sense at all, but I do now remember that it happens. DOS, eh?

Nice to get a bit of a kick up the arse occasionally to remind me that nothing is straightforward!

[tjewell]

Dont' beat yourself up about it! It's still a great piece of code, and you'd be forgiven for presuming that only a mad person would run Perl under DOS. Apologies for being that mad person and exposing the problem. Still, I'm happy because I now program the beast again!

[zephyr]

So the fix is simple - Sixxie, I've added a "binmode $output_file;" at line 557 in the assembler script. I guess better minds than mine could work out how to do a 'if DOS then' kinda wrapper round it.

http://alma.ch/perl/perloses.htm
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3346 ... em-in-perl

[zephyr]

Perl is an unknown language for me at present; but from the information above I would think the following code placed at line 558 (Perl script v1.1) would do the job.

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if (($^O eq 'MSWin32') || ($^O eq 'dos')) { 
   binmode $output_file; 
}

Is this correct?

[sixxie]

That's the sort of thing, but it's not necessary: in this case, we want binary mode whatever the architecture. On non-DOS, it'll just be a no-op.

[zephyr]

Are you going to add 'binmode $output_file;' to your v1.1 (change version to 1.2) Perl script?

[sixxie]

Looks like I already had something called 1.2 in git, so this is 1.3, and uploaded!

[zephyr]

Thanks!