Re: UNIX/Linux text files
On Tuesday 20 April 2004 19:30, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> 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().
Interesting -- I didn't know that.
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