Re: UNIX/Linux text files
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- Subject: Re: UNIX/Linux text files
- From: Dragan Cvetkovic <me@privacy.net>
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:25:10 -0400
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- In-reply-to: <1N7xO-7fh-17@gated-at.bofh.it> (Adam Funk's message of "Tue, 20 Apr 2004 19:50:12 +0200")
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Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com> writes:
> 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?
>
Or VMS or MVS or CP/M or lot of other operating systems. If I still
remember correctly (it's been a while), on VMS you can specify if file is
text or record based and also the access to it (sequential, random etc).
Bye, Dragan
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