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According to Karl M on 5/18/2009 7:14 PM:
> I thought cat would work, because the data is written to a new file.

Nope.  POSIX requires cat to always behave in binary mode, so it does so,
even when stdout was originally opened in text mode.

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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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