On 19/07/2015 15:35, Bob Beck wrote: > The place to solve this is in whatever is using cat for this purpose. > check for the file type before blindly cat'ing.
Understood both your & Ted's explanation regarding cat. Just so it's crisp clear, ignoring cat(1), having such a flag in fopen(2) is not of interest for use elsewhere either? > this solution is like soaking your clothing with antiseptic every > morning because you are prone to stabbing yourself. :) Sevan
