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- From: amk@cs.tu-berlin.de (Andreas M. Kirchwitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: csh bug ( cat )
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 15:27:32 GMT
- Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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- Chris McCarthy <atoz@mayhem.inferno.net> writes:
-
- > I noticed that csh seems to miss some characters when appending to
- > binary files.
- >
- > e.g. cat c:list >> c:dir
- >
- > That leaves me with a file smaller than the two added together.
- > Is this a bug, or a feature ?
-
- Now... some kind of bug :-) Cshell's built-in command "cat"
- doesn't handle binary files but only text files. In general
- this isn't a problem because only Unix users are that crazy
- to use "cat" to join files. Amiga users use "join" ...
-
- Nevertheless, this should and will be fixed in the next
- release...
-
- Greetings, Andreas
-