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Synopsis:
    #include <io.h>
    #include <fcntl.h>
    int setmode( int handle, int mode );

Description:
    The setmode function sets, at the operating system level, the
    translation mode to be the value of mode for the file whose file handle
    is given by handle.  The mode, defined in the <fcntl.h> header file, can
    be one of:

    Mode     Meaning

O_TEXT
    On input, a carriage-return character that immediately precedes a
    linefeed character is removed from the data that is read.  On output, a
    carriage-return character is inserted before each linefeed character.

O_BINARY
    Data is read or written unchanged.


Returns:
    If successful, the setmode function returns the previous mode that was
    set for the file; otherwise, -1 is returned.  When an error has
    occurred,  errno contains a value indicating the type of error that has
    been detected.

Example:
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <fcntl.h>
    #include <io.h>

    void main()
      {
        FILE *fp;
        long count;

        fp = fopen( "file", "rb" );
        if( fp != NULL ) {
          setmode( fileno( fp ), O_BINARY );
          count = 0L;
          while( fgetc( fp ) != EOF ) ++count;
          printf( "File contains %lu characters\n",
                  count );
          fclose( fp );
        }
      }

Classification:
    WATCOM

Systems:
    All, Netware

See Also:
    chsize, close, creat, dup, dup2, eof, exec Functions, filelength,
    fileno, fstat, isatty, lseek, open, read, sopen, stat, tell, write,
    umask