> > DO NOT EVER SEND BINARY DATA TO STDOUT, BAD!

> It's easy to check whether stdout is a terminal, lookup isatty(3C).  I
> agree that sending binary data to the terminal is a bad thing.  (GNU zip
> does this check when you feed it data from stdin.)

        I wasn't implying that precautions couldn't be taken, simply that
before implementing a solution involving the possibility of sending binary
data to STDOUT, that these precautions should be implemented.



/d


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