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On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 02:44:47PM -0500, Mumit Khan wrote: >Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> writes: >>So, we'll be no worse off with raw PBM files than we are right now. >>This is obviously not 100% foolproof. That may be a reason not to even >>consider it because it will make problems a lot harder to track down. > >That was the caveat I was pointing out as well -- better the devil you >... At least we can now control the behaviour in two predictable ways >-- mount and explicit binary/text mode I/O. > >Jeffrey Juliano brought up the issue of Emacs' handling of text vs >binary. I think it's apples and oranges since text editors misreading >text vs binary is immediately evident to the user, but not so to a say >a program that converts one format to the other in a batch mode. Good point. I don't know if it helps but I keep meaning to point out that it is possible to actually mount *files* in binmode, too: mount -b c:\blah\foo.zip /blah/foo.zip cgf
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