From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ronald Natalie) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 16:54:48 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Command-line options In-Reply-To: References: <201603251443.u2PEh8OZ019856@skeeve.com> <20160325212925.GA5761@minnie.tuhs.org> <20160325232516.GG3766@eureka.lemis.com> <20160326021018.GG897@mercury.ccil.org> Message-ID: <4B49E73B-51BD-4834-AA8C-5F9F74BA784E@ronnatalie.com> More strictly, UNIX doesn’t have “type” in a file. They’re just a bunch of bytes. It’s up to whoever is making the file to decide if the name conveys that information or a magic number does. The other fun character set was the old UNIVAC Fielddata. There were no non printing characters and in fact not even a null value (the 0 value was called master space and printed as @). -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2284 bytes Desc: not available URL: