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

[Anonymous Monk]

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

[Anonymous Monk]

binmode is mandatory only on MS-DOS/Windows systems.

perldoc -f binmode

On some systems (in general, DOS and Windows-based systems) binmode() is necessary when you're not working with a text file.