From: root AT jacob DOT remcomp DOT fr (root) Subject: Re: using cat on binary files (CTRL-Z trauma) 19 Oct 1996 12:21:58 -0700 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Content-Type: text Original-To: jcook AT mseng DOT kla DOT com (John Cook) Original-Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <326803E3@mscorp.kla.com> from "John Cook" at Oct 18, 96 03:24:00 pm Content-Length: 469 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > > > > When I try to cat a binary file, cat bails upon receiving > the first CTRL-Z byte. CTRL-Z is the DOS end-of-file character > (right?) Wrong! DOS doesn't use the Ctrl-Z character since (at least) DOS 3.X i.e. several centuries ago in this rapîdly moving field! We are now in DOS Windows NT style, quite a change since C:> -- Jacob Navia Logiciels/Informatique 41 rue Maurice Ravel Tel (1) 48.23.51.44 93430 Villetaneuse Fax (1) 48.23.95.39 France - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".