On 23 July 2007 19:10, Dave Korn wrote:
> Yeh, 'cat' is special: it absolutely guaranteed 100% always always always
> uses bin mode, regardless of mount type, stdio mode, shell
> direction/redirection/misdirection and indeed anything else at all.
Ho hum. Let me correct myself: regardless of anything except certain of
the command-line options it accepts. JFTR, here's the man page describing the
exact rule:
" On systems like MS-DOS that distinguish between text and binary
files, `cat' normally reads and writes in binary mode. However, `cat'
reads in text mode if one of the options `-bensAE' is used or if `cat'
is reading from standard input and standard input is a terminal.
Similarly, `cat' writes in text mode if one of the options `-bensAE' is
used or if standard output is a terminal. "
cheers,
DaveK
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