Subject: Re: md5sum uses text mode, not binary mode
From: [email-masked]

19 Jun 1998 17:32:20 -0700
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked], [email-masked]

> 
> Finally, `cat' obviously uses text mode:
> 
> 	$ cat foo.exe | wc
> 	     11      48    2098
> 	$ ls -l foo.exe
> 	-r-xr-xr-x   1 544      everyone  1190912 Jun 17 16:15 foo.exe
> 	$
> 
> Clearly, `cat' read only the first 2098 bytes.  I infer that it saw
> a ^Z and stopped, implying that `cat' reads its files in text mode.

Here is a flaw in your logic.  It could be that wc is setting its input
into text mode (indeed this is quite likely since wc is meant to process
text).

A better test would be to do:

	cat foo.exe >xxx

and see if xxx and foo.exe look the same.

marcus hall
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