Re: cat and binary files

[Ed Huott <huott@pinebush.com>]

In message < 9704101917.AA21816@marc.watson.ibm.com >, Marc Auslander writes:
>I tried doing binary mounts with the following results.
>
>1.  cat now produces a file larger than the sum of the input file
>sizes.
>
>2.  bash gets confused reading .bashrc
>
>3.  I don't know how to get binary while using explicit path notation.
>
>So I'll go back to text mode mounts for now, and if necessary write a
>cat that works.
>

You would probably have better luck if you could ensure that the files
you are cat'ing and your .bashrc were not "text" files, that is that
they did not contain <cr><lf> as line terminators instead of just
<lf>.

It is very simple to write a filter that will convert files from one
form to the other.

<ED>
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