16 Mar
2007
16 Mar
'07
11:12 a.m.
On 16/3/07 14:17, "John Foust" <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
At 10:54 PM 3/15/2007, der Mouse wrote:
I certainly didn't expect 'cat' to do that. Anyone who did
just doesn't understand Unix and there's no sense arguing about that.
I apologise for lacking the pre-requisite inner knowledge of unix and shall
unsub forthwith. I'm obviously not clever enough for this list.
--
Adrian/Witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer
collection?
Although
the UNIX purist might argue that all is bytes, in reality
for many folks, they routinely deal with known file types created by
a relatively few applications.
Certainly. But that's a long way from expecting cat(1) to recognize
the headers on mpeg files and convert two header+data mpegs into
header+data+data instead of header+data+header+data.