Well, other command line utilities ask politely whether you want to push on with a binary file. So it is not unnatural to expect that. /niels
Sent from Proton Mail Android -------- Original Message -------- On 8/10/25 14:10, Carson Chittom <carson@chittom.family> wrote: > Dan <d...@nnnne-o-o-o.com> writes: > > > To me > >> > >>> wiz# man /usr/lib/libform.so.6.0 > > > > returns a screen of binary data.. > > Correct. I don't understand why you expect it not to do that. You are > calling man(1) and feeding it an absolute filename, so it is doing its > best to do what you asked. It is not man's fault that you pointed it at > binary file. > > What *do* you expect it to do in this circumstance? > >
