From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Pipe to sendmail (again)
Date: 10 Jul 2000 19:54:27 GMT
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Olaf van der Spek <Olaf AT xcc DOT tmfweb DOT nl> wrote:

> I thought it was necessary for the text mode. I think I saw it in a MSDN
> doc.

You didn't really think you could believe anything MSDN writes about
Unix, did you?

> But why is there no text mode in Unix?

No particular reason. Someone thought it was simpler, that way. He was
right. On Unix, one of the basic principles says "everything is a
file".  It doesn't say somethings are text files and others binary:
they're files. Period.
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.