On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:10:30PM +0000, Adam Funk wrote: | On Tuesday 20 April 2004 16:50, John Hasler wrote: | | > Ciaran writes: | >> The file command uses magic to figure it out. Is that any better? | > | > The point is that there are no "text files": just files that happen to | > contain text. This not true of all operating systems. | | You mean the traditional Mac system, with resource and data forks in | each file? Windows as well, which modifies the bytes as you write to a file depending on whether or not the 'b' flag was presented to fopen(). -D -- mailhost:/etc/mail# less sendmail.cf less: syntax of file "sendmail.cf" may induce nausea, show anyway? [n] www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ jabber: dman@dman13.dyndns.org
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