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RE: file not working on executables?
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 13:08:29 +0100
- Subject: RE: file not working on executables?
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
----Original Message----
>From: Gary R. Van Sickle
>Sent: 09 September 2005 05:12
> Any program that doesn't open all files, except text files, with "rb", is
> a counterexample to this.
I think you just won the award for most convoluted double negative of the
year.
Unless it's a triple negative of course. I just can't tell!
> Again, I 100% share the notion that text mounts should not be necessary.
> But when even such basic apps as tar get this wrong,
Tar doesn't get anything wrong. What you put into it is exactly what you
get back out.
> I simply don't see
> how anybody can realistically entertain the idea that eliminating them
> will somehow solve any problems.
Never mistake a failure of one's imagination for an insight into
necessity!
cheers,
DaveK
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