Incoming from Dragan Cvetkovic: > 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).
Last I looked, VMS had multiple types of text files, all stemming from its heavily hacked IO performance routines. I vaguely remember ther were about 16 of them. Run away! -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
