Re: proc suggestion

From: Tim Waugh (twaugh@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 10:26:32 EST


On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Wolter wrote:

> Make /proc work so that when you open files under it in binary mode
> you get binary data better suited for programs and when in text mode,
> human readable nicely formatted ascii text. Now wouldn't that be
> great?

'binary mode'? This is unix; files are streams of bytes, and that's
it.

Tim.
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