From: dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
Subject: Re: ASCII and BINARY files. Why?
31 Jan 1997 18:44:54 -0800
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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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