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Re: cat and binary files
- To: marc at watson dot ibm dot com
- Subject: Re: cat and binary files
- From: Ed Huott <huott at pinebush dot com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 21:19:50 -0400
- cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
In message <9704101917.AA21816@marc.watson.ibm.com>, Marc Auslander writes:
>I tried doing binary mounts with the following results.
>
>1. cat now produces a file larger than the sum of the input file
>sizes.
>
>2. bash gets confused reading .bashrc
>
>3. I don't know how to get binary while using explicit path notation.
>
>So I'll go back to text mode mounts for now, and if necessary write a
>cat that works.
>
You would probably have better luck if you could ensure that the files
you are cat'ing and your .bashrc were not "text" files, that is that
they did not contain <cr><lf> as line terminators instead of just
<lf>.
It is very simple to write a filter that will convert files from one
form to the other.
<ED>
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