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Re: ASCII and BINARY files. Why?
- To: leisner at sdsp dot mc dot xerox dot com
- Subject: Re: ASCII and BINARY files. Why?
- From: dahms at ifk20 dot mach dot uni-karlsruhe dot de
- Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 00:59:26 EST
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com, dahms at ifk20 dot mach dot uni-karlsruhe dot de
Hi, you wrote:
: I didn't see my 2 cents added (I thought I posted it, I don't see it...)
All of us should send their $.02 to M$, so we get a useful POSIX system 8-)
: DOS configuration files need \n\r in order to work...
You mean \r\n.
: Unix got it right in saying "a file is a bytestream".
Yes, but I would think *the* example, sed, ironically named stream editor,
should work on arbitrary byte streams, but it tries to buffer lines
and fails if confronted with a few kB or even MB of bytes without LF!
Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
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