On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 02:07:04PM -0700, Hugh S. Myers wrote: > Remind me, what does cat do with binary files?
On Unix, there's no such thing as "binary files vs non-binary files". Files are just streams of bytes - nothing more, nothing less. cat copies input to standard output. So, cat on a "binary file" just does whatever it does with any file: it copies the content to standard output. Depending on your implementation of cat, it may have some options to display control characters and characters above 0x7F in a different way. Abigail
