Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 20 April 2004 16:50, John Hasler wrote: > >> Ciaran writes: >>> The file command uses magic to figure it out. Is that any better? >> >> The point is that there are no "text files": just files that happen to >> contain text. This not true of all operating systems. > > You mean the traditional Mac system, with resource and data forks in > each file? >
Or VMS or MVS or CP/M or lot of other operating systems. If I still remember correctly (it's been a while), on VMS you can specify if file is text or record based and also the access to it (sequential, random etc). Bye, Dragan -- Dragan Cvetkovic, To be or not to be is true. G. Boole No it isn't. L. E. J. Brouwer !!! Sender/From address is bogus. Use reply-to one !!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
