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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 16:06:46 -0400
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Subject: Re: hybrid text/binary mount
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In-Reply-To: <200004241934.PAA06421@envy.delorie.com>; from dj@delorie.com on Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 03:34:10PM -0400

On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 03:34:10PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> I was thinking that if a file had any characters whose ASCII code was
>> < ' ' or >= DEL before the first \n, then the file would be considered
>> binary.  Otherwise, the file would be text.  You could apply this heuristic
>> to both input and output.
>
>It's hard to apply it to output, because you don't know what the
>program is going to write out.  At least on input, you can read a big
>chunk (buffering does this anyway) and run some tests on the existing
>data.

I think that most output is done in more than one character at a time
mode.

cgf