From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 20:16:30 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document the implicit :bytes of binmode(FH).
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Document the implicit :bytes of binmode(FH).

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17173
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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index b1d7ebd..c85d43b 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -458,6 +458,8 @@ DISCIPLINE can be either of C<:raw> for binary mode or C<:crlf> for
 "text" mode.  If the DISCIPLINE is omitted, it defaults to C<:raw>.
 Returns true on success, C<undef> on failure.  To mark FILEHANDLE as
 UTF-8, use C<:utf8>, and to mark it as bytes, use C<:bytes>.
+For backward compatibility binmode(FILEHANDLE) also implicitly
+marks the handle as bytes.
 
 The C<:raw> are C<:clrf>, and any other directives of the form
 C<:...>, are called I/O I<disciplines>.  The C<open> pragma can be