RE: Binary-cat Console Junkedness... [(Sort of) OFF-TOPIC]

1998-12-30 Thread Shaleh
On 30-Dec-98 Ryan King wrote: > Knowing the answer to this question doesn't matter much, but I am > curious... > > Why does a VC go bonkies when you cat a binary file from it? What doesn't > make sense to me is that only some of the chars display wrong, and that > it's only the display that is r

Re: Binary-cat Console Junkedness... [(Sort of) OFF-TOPIC]

1998-12-30 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Ryan King wrote: > Why does a VC go bonkies when you cat a binary file from it? Terminals can be modified in various ways by sending them special command sequences ("control characters"). You can tell the terminal to use boldface, change size, and lots of more arcane things.

Binary-cat Console Junkedness... [(Sort of) OFF-TOPIC]

1998-12-30 Thread Ryan King
Knowing the answer to this question doesn't matter much, but I am curious... Why does a VC go bonkies when you cat a binary file from it? What doesn't make sense to me is that only some of the chars display wrong, and that it's only the display that is ruined, but the actual characters are intact