file not working on executables?

[Dave Korn]

----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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