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source/materials/History

@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ It must **not** be used as a substitute for writing good git commit messages!
 
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+## 2025-02-11 Ben Morgan (materials-V11-02-09)
+- Make ios flags for Store/Retrieve of G4ExtDEDXTable consistent to avoid
+  issues on Windows platforms.
+
 ## 2024-11-04 Philippe Canal (materials-V11-02-08)
 - Improve stability of static initialization: simplified G4NistManager
   singleton initialization; migrated Isotopes, Materials, Elements's table

source/materials/src/G4ExtDEDXTable.cc

@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ G4bool G4ExtDEDXTable::StorePhysicsTable(const G4String& fileName  // File name
 G4bool G4ExtDEDXTable::RetrievePhysicsTable(const G4String& fileName)
 {
   std::ifstream ifilestream;
-  ifilestream.open(fileName, std::ios::in | std::ios::binary);
+  ifilestream.open(fileName, std::ios::in);
   if (! ifilestream) {
     G4ExceptionDescription ed;
     ed << "Cannot open file " << fileName;