[phobos] std.stdio: text and binary modes on Windows

[Walter Bright]

I agree that rawWrite should always write in binary mode.

Shin Fujishiro wrote:
> Should File.rawWrite() write data to file in binary mode?  Or should it
> just transparently call fwrite() as documented?
>
> I saw a D user who had trouble writing binary data to stdout on Windows.
> Every occurrence of 0x0A was translated to 0x0D 0x0A even he used
> stdout.rawWrite() -- because stdout was opened in text mode.
>
> Try this:
> --------------------
> import std.stdio;
> void main()
> {
>     ubyte[] data = [ 0x9, 0xA, 0xB ];
>     stdout.rawWrite(data);
> }
> --------------------
> On Windows, this program writes [ 0x9, 0xD, 0xA, 0xB ].
>
> I think File.rawWrite() should always write data in binary mode
> regardless of which mode is set.
>
> What do you think?
>
>
> Shin
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