On Tuesday 20 April 2004 19:30, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:10:30PM +0000, Adam Funk wrote: > | 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? > > Windows as well, which modifies the bytes as you write to a file > depending on whether or not the 'b' flag was presented to fopen().
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