From: marcus AT bighorn DOT dr DOT lucent DOT com Subject: Re: md5sum uses text mode, not binary mode 19 Jun 1998 17:32:20 -0700 Message-ID: <199806191346.HAA22801.cygnus.gnu-win32@chorus.dr.lucent.com> To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, mcook AT cognex DOT com > > 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 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".