Re^2: Handling huge BLOB fields with DBI and MySQL

If you are writting binary blobs to file don't you need to set binmode on your output stream ? ie binmode OUTFILE;

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Re^3: Handling huge BLOB fields with DBI and MySQL by Anonymous Monk on Jul 28, 2004 at 08:54 UTC
binmode is mandatory only on MS-DOS/Windows systems. `perldoc -f binmode` [download] On some systems (in general, DOS and Windows-based systems) binmode() is necessary when you're not working with a text file.	[reply] [d/l]

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